JSF Form is not showing up
jsf, jsf-2
Solution
You need to make sure that the request URL (as you enter in browser address bar) matches the `url-pattern` of the `FacesServlet`. I.e. do not open the page by http://example.com/context/page.xhtml, but open it by http://example.com/context/page.jsf. Otherwise the `FacesServlet` will not be invoked and your XHTML page with JSF components will not be parsed in any way. You'll only see "plain HTML" tags like `<fieldset>` and so on in the browser and you will see the JSF source code unchanged in the returned HTML source when you do a View Source in browser.
Problem
My server is glassfish v3, my browser is firefox 3.6.3 and i am using Netbeans 6.8 My question is why the textfield is not showing up in my browser. I only see the label. ``` <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"> <h:head> <title>Lookup</title> </h:head> <h:body> <fieldset> <legend>Enter Your Customer ID</legend> <p>Legal ids are id001, id002, and id003.</p> <f:view> <h:form> Customer ID: <h:inputText value="#{bankForm.customerId}" /> <h:commandButton value="Show Current Balance" action="#{bankForm.findBalance}" /> </h:form> </f:view> </fieldset> </h:body> </html> ``` The web.xml ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"> <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name> <param-value>Development</param-value> </context-param> <servlet> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <session-config> <session-timeout> 30 </session-timeout> </session-config> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>pages/customer-lookup</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app> ```