According the FileEntry documentation (http://www.icesoft.org/wiki/display/ICE/FileEntry) the fileEntry component has to be in a form where components do not use XHR and Ajax:

The fileEntry component requires that a non-AJAX full form submit occur to upload the file contents. This is an HTML 4 requirement. It then intercepts this submit and employs it's own AJAX techniques to allow for a partial page update, instead of the typical full page update. It does not use XmlHttpRequest at any point. Because of this, no component may upload the files by doing an AJAX submit, but rather must do a standard full form submit.

As the mobi components rely on Ajax, and cannot fully function solely through full-page updates, they may be inherently incompatible with the fileEntry component.

If the <ace:fileEntry> component is removed the problem goes away. So there's some incompatibility between the ace:fileEntry and the ICEmobile, probably related to multipart processing. ICEmobile 1.3 relies on multipart processing. The <multipart/> configuration must be added to the Faces Servlet. After adding this to the example, the error still occurred though.

It doesn't seem related to the USS custom ICEmobile build, as I can reproduce on the stock IM 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 with the mobile showcase sample. And it's only the ace:fileEntry that causes the problem.

What's happening is that for some reason the XHR response is coming back as a full page response, not as a true JSF XML-formatted partial response. But it is still being handled as an out-of-bounds XHR response by the ICEmobile script, which is expecting to parse a JSF partial response and not finding the expected content.

Simply checking for null here won't solve the problem as the root problem is that response is coming back as a full page response and not as a partial response.

Perhaps the FileEntry mechanism of adding '?ice.fileentry.multipart=true' to the form action attribute is messing up the way ICEmobile sets and fires the intercepted Ajax requests. I'll continue to test that.

Attached test case that shows this issue. Note: Due to size restrictions I have removed the icefaces-ee.jar, icefaces-ee-ace.jar, and icefaces-ee-ext.jar files.

Steps:

• Load welcomeICEmobile.jsf
• In the first comboBox make a selection. In the browser console a script error is thrown.
• The update should update the contents of the second comboBox but it remains empty.

This is the error reported in Firefox: TypeError: xml.getElementsByTagName(...)[0] is undefined