Looks
like my escapade with App Servers has not finished.
After
finishing the work on WAS Liberty, I realized that we were at old
servlet api version 2.4. Though wanted to move to 3.0, but Weblogic
11GR1 does not support that. So bumped up the version to 2.5.
Everything seemed like working until people using weblogic in the
team faced issues in deployment itself.
The
application failed to even deploy on Weblogic with error :
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.
Surprisingly
we don't even use JSF or any faces implementation. Went back to my old
friend 'google' and found that internet filled with posts from poor souls
like me. After going through lots of pages finally found a
page which solved the issue.
In
struts libraries there is a jar → struts-faces.jar. If this jar is
present in your lib folder, weblogic seems to look for faces related
libs and hence the issue.
But
funny part is - its all working well with servlet 2.4 declaration in
web.xml. Its also working well with 2.5 version declaration in WAS. grrrrr....
