Spring Boot with JSF; Could not find backup for factory javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory

Question

I\'m having some problems with Spring Boot and JSF. The servlet appears to start up correctly, but when I attempt to access a resource I get the following exception

Answer 1

To get JSF working on Spring Boot without a web.xml or faces-config.xml you need to force it to load its configuration files via an init parameter on the ServletContext. An easy way to do that is to implement ServletContextAware:

public class Application implements ServletContextAware {

    // ...

    @Override
    public void setServletContext(ServletContext servletContext) {
        servletContext.setInitParameter("com.sun.faces.forceLoadConfiguration", Boolean.TRUE.toString());           
    }
}

JSF's ConfigureListener also has a dependency on JSP, so you'll need to add a dependency on Jasper to your pom:

    org.apache.tomcat.embed
    tomcat-embed-jasper

It's not directly related to your problem, but you don't need to declare FacesServlet as a bean. The ServletRegistrationBean is sufficient.

This leaves Application.java looking as follows:

import javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.ServletListenerRegistrationBean;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.ServletRegistrationBean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.context.ServletContextAware;

import com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener;

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan
public class Application implements ServletContextAware {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class);
    }

    @Bean
    public ServletRegistrationBean facesServletRegistration() {
        ServletRegistrationBean registration = new ServletRegistrationBean(
            new FacesServlet(), "*.xhtml");
        registration.setLoadOnStartup(1);
        return registration;
    }

    @Bean
    public ServletListenerRegistrationBean jsfConfigureListener() {
        return new ServletListenerRegistrationBean(
            new ConfigureListener());
    }

    @Override
    public void setServletContext(ServletContext servletContext) {
        servletContext.setInitParameter("com.sun.faces.forceLoadConfiguration", Boolean.TRUE.toString());       
    }
}