JSF 2.2 requires Servlet 3.0. Supported platforms for ICEfaces 4 will be (initial release):

• Tomcat 7
• Glassfish 4
• WildFly (JBoss) 8

It has been found that samples applications that usually have been tested until now on Tomcat6, need to be deployed onto Tomcat7 to be able to run the tests in automation.

ICEfaces3/trunk revision # 34942
Server: Tomcat6
Browsers: IE7, Firefox3.6, Chrome26

auction / auctionMonitor/ component-showcase/ basic/ compat-basic/ elementUpdate/ fajax/ scopes:
Tests failed in automation on Tomcat6 due to an HTTP Error 500 when loading the test page in TestRunner (tests pass in automation on Tomcat7):

HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
com.sun.faces.config.InitFacesContext$ServletContextAdapter.getInitParameter(InitFacesContext.java:368)
javax.faces.component.UIComponent.pushComponentToEL(UIComponent.java:1937)
javax.faces.event.ComponentSystemEvent.processListener(ComponentSystemEvent.java:114)
com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.processListeners(ApplicationImpl.java:2187)
com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.invokeListenersFor(ApplicationImpl.java:2163)
com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.publishEvent(ApplicationImpl.java:296)
com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.publishEvent(ApplicationImpl.java:247)
javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot$ViewMap.clear(UIViewRoot.java:1849)
com.sun.faces.config.InitFacesContext.release(InitFacesContext.java:247)
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:629)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.26 logs.

showcase:
Tests were executed without any issues in automation on Tomcat7, and no other issues have been found except the ones already known.

Created ICE-9247 as child issue that needs to solve the handling of view state key format.

Also note that any specific changes for JSF 2.2 should be logged in separate JIRAs and linked back to this summary JIRA.

Please review the JSF 2.2 change the ViewState key from ""javax.faces.ViewState" to "j_id1:javax.faces.ViewState:0" and report back on it's potential impact on ICEfaces.

If changes are minor, we'll consider fixing it on the trunk so that we can move ahead on testing to see what else might be a problem for us. If changes are going to be significant or risky, we should consider branching our trunk for further work on getting 2.2 supported.