Facescontext null in servlet

Any clarification would be appreciated. I've resolved this problem, and am going to post for the future edification of anyone who may run into something similar. This appears to have caused some kind of class loader collision, because my pages all rendered fine and one could access the FacesContext from them. Despite being the exact same library files, the class loader was loading them again presumably because of the web application class loading rules and hence I was seeing a different version of the class.

I misunderstood you. Which is OK, as long as you don't intend to access Faces services while doing it! In your case, you got whacked by the old multiple classpath issue. That can be a real bear to figure out, so I'm glad you didn't have to spend forever on it! Ranjith Kumar. I removed the jsf-lib folder but still the FacesContext is returned as null.

I have been breaking my head on this for the last 2 days. Hope you can help. I earlier had these lines in the web. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Ranjith. A valid Session and FacesContext were required, but of course none existed.

In JSF1. Any other ideas? At what stage of the request? Awesome article. This article helped in getting rid of the NPE and get the context which was missing.

NullPointerException at com. Thank you, that saved my day. Got weird exceptions when trying to access the SessionMap.

But release and remove solved that. After hours of research on the internet and effort about my NPE I finally end up here. Thanks a lot for your post. A Statement or action made with malicious intent - unless challenged. At which point it magically transforms into "I was just funnin'" or "What's the matter, can't take a joke? Forum: JSF. FacesContext is Null : Seeking Explanation. Abhishk Singh. Optional 'thank-you' note:. I am using JSF1.

I have a project which consits of 9 subprojects. All the subprojects are bundled in one EAR for deployment. At which point it magically transforms into "I was just funnin'" or "What's the matter, can't take a joke? Forum: JSF. FacesContext is null inside managed bean. Peter Goldstein. Optional 'thank-you' note:. I'm having a somewhat unexpected problem with a null value returned by FacesContext.

Now, this facesContext variable is set to null, and I don't understand how that's possible. Not only that, but if I comment out all calls to facesContext, then the navigation works fine and I'm directed to the intended target page.

This is all running on JBoss 4. I'm surprised by this, and don't really have any good idea how to debug the underlying problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tim Holloway. Saloon Keeper. I like JSF isn't nearly as magic as it looks. In other words, if you try and use a backing bean directly from a JSP or a traditional servlet, they will not set up the FacesContext for that request and if you attempt to aquire it, you'll get back null.