In testing the Liferay Faces bridge with his own samples, Neil found that one them that was working with our 3.0.1 release is now failing with the 3.1.0-RC1 release. The problem is that when, after successfully filling out the form, clicking submit should result in a non-redirect navigation to a new view. While this worked with the 3.0.1 release, it now causes:

(note, line numbers may not match as this stack trace is from classes that have extra debugging lines in them)

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.icefaces.impl.util.DOMUtils.printNode(DOMUtils.java:291)
at org.icefaces.impl.util.DOMUtils.printNodeCDATA(DOMUtils.java:278)
at org.icefaces.impl.context.DOMPartialViewContext.processPartial(DOMPartialViewContext.java:189)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.encodeChildren(UIViewRoot.java:981)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1757)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.renderView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:391)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.MultiViewHandler.renderView(MultiViewHandler.java:131)
at javax.faces.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:288)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:121)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139)
at com.liferay.faces.bridge.lifecycle.LifecycleWrapper.render(LifecycleWrapper.java:45)
at com.liferay.faces.bridge.BridgePhaseResourceImpl.execute(BridgePhaseResourceImpl.java:115)
at com.liferay.faces.bridge.BridgeImpl.doFacesRequest(BridgeImpl.java:115)
at javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet.serveResource(GenericFacesPortlet.java:178)