Richfaces 4 components don't render

Question

The problem I have is that jsf tags are not being parsed, so I\'m not seeing richfaces components in my pages. I\'m using richfaces 4, tomcat 7, and jsf 2.0

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Answer 1

the source code I get from browser is identical

In other words, the FacesServlet wasn't called and was therefore not able to do its job. That can only mean that the request URL did not match the URL pattern of the FacesServlet as definied in web.xml. Perhaps you opened the page by http://localhost:8080/bisis-please-work/somepage.xhtml instead of by http://localhost:8080/bisis-please-work/somepage.jsf which would match *.jsf as you've definied in web.xml.

Alternatively, you can also replace *.jsf by *.xhtml so that you don't need to fiddle with URLs anymore and also don't need to worry about the client being able to see the raw JSF source code. The only disadvantage is that you won't be able to serve "plain vanilla" XHTML files without invoking the FacesServlet, but that shouldn't matter, those files should have the .html extension anyway.