Also, a server error is seen when accessing ice:graphicImage demo:

Jun 05, 2014 6:26:51 PM org.icefaces.samples.showcase.util.FacesUtils getManagedBean
SEVERE: could not get value for bean graphicImage
com.sun.faces.mgbean.ManagedBeanCreationException: An error occurred performing resource injection on managed bean graphicImage
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanBuilder.invokePostConstruct(BeanBuilder.java:229)
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanBuilder.build(BeanBuilder.java:105)
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanManager.createAndPush(BeanManager.java:408)
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanManager.create(BeanManager.java:268)
at com.sun.faces.el.ManagedBeanELResolver.resolveBean(ManagedBeanELResolver.java:244)
at com.sun.faces.el.ManagedBeanELResolver.getValue(ManagedBeanELResolver.java:116)
at com.sun.faces.el.DemuxCompositeELResolver._getValue(DemuxCompositeELResolver.java:176)
at com.sun.faces.el.DemuxCompositeELResolver.getValue(DemuxCompositeELResolver.java:203)
at com.sun.el.parser.AstIdentifier.getValue(AstIdentifier.java:103)
at com.sun.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:224)
at org.icefaces.samples.showcase.util.FacesUtils.getManagedBean(FacesUtils.java:82)
at org.icefaces.samples.showcase.view.navigation.NavigationController.navigate(NavigationController.java:141)
at org.icefaces.samples.showcase.view.navigation.NavigationController.navigate(NavigationController.java:51)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at com.sun.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:254)
at com.sun.el.MethodExpressionImpl.invoke(MethodExpressionImpl.java:302)
at com.sun.faces.facelets.el.TagMethodExpression.invoke(TagMethodExpression.java:105)
at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.core.DeclarativeSystemEventListener.processEvent(EventHandler.java:128)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent$ComponentSystemEventListenerAdapter.processEvent(UIComponent.java:2486)
at javax.faces.event.SystemEvent.processListener(SystemEvent.java:106)
at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.processListeners(ApplicationImpl.java:2163)
at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.invokeComponentListenersFor(ApplicationImpl.java:2111)
at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.publishEvent(ApplicationImpl.java:289)
at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.publishEvent(ApplicationImpl.java:247)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processValidators(UIComponentBase.java:1222)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processValidators(UIViewRoot.java:1164)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.ProcessValidationsPhase.execute(ProcessValidationsPhase.java:76)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:593)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:280)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:254)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:136)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:341)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:25)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestEventsFilter.doFilter(RequestEventsFilter.java:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.wrapRun(WebAppServletContext.java:3367)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3333)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:57)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.doSecuredExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2220)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2146)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2124)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1564)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.ContainerSupportProviderImpl$WlsRequestExecutor.run(ContainerSupportProviderImpl.java:254)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:295)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:254)
Caused by: com.sun.faces.spi.InjectionProviderException: com.oracle.pitchfork.interfaces.LifecycleCallbackException: Failure to invoke public void org.icefaces.samples.showcase.example.compat.graphicimage.GraphicImageBean.initMetaData() on bean class class org.icefaces.samples.showcase.example.compat.graphicimage.GraphicImageBean with args: null
at com.bea.faces.WeblogicInjectionProvider.invokePostConstruct(WeblogicInjectionProvider.java:40)
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanBuilder.invokePostConstruct(BeanBuilder.java:223)
... 52 more
Caused by: com.oracle.pitchfork.interfaces.LifecycleCallbackException: Failure to invoke public void org.icefaces.samples.showcase.example.compat.graphicimage.GraphicImageBean.initMetaData() on bean class class org.icefaces.samples.showcase.example.compat.graphicimage.GraphicImageBean with args: null
at com.oracle.pitchfork.inject.Jsr250Metadata.invokeLifecycleMethod(Jsr250Metadata.java:398)
at com.oracle.pitchfork.inject.Jsr250Metadata.invokeLifecycleMethods(Jsr250Metadata.java:368)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebComponentContributor.invokeLifecycleMethods(WebComponentContributor.java:328)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebComponentContributor.notifyPostConstruct(WebComponentContributor.java:311)
at com.bea.faces.WeblogicInjectionProvider.invokePostConstruct(WeblogicInjectionProvider.java:38)
... 53 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at com.oracle.pitchfork.inject.Jsr250Metadata.invokeLifecycleMethod(Jsr250Metadata.java:396)
... 57 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:251)
at org.icefaces.samples.showcase.example.compat.graphicimage.GraphicImageBean.initMetaData(GraphicImageBean.java:86)
... 62 more

Weblogic will return null whenever ServletContext.getRealPath is invoked within an archived application. Weblogic's admin console can be used to enable ServletContext.getRealPath functionality by toggling "Enable getRealPath() results for archived web apps". See more instructions here: http://my-java-planet.blogspot.ro/2011/11/how-to-fix-weblogic-servletcontextgetre.html