*.xhtml url-pattern causes java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.faces.context.flash.ELFlash.loggingGetPhaseMapForReading

Question

I am trying to force JSF to process my welcome file. I have set the servlet-mapping in my web.xml to the following:

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Answer 1

It turns out that the problem was actually being caused by my faces-config.xml file. I had copied from an older project which was using JSF 1.2, whereas I was using 2.1. Once I changed that, the problem went away.

Answer 2

For me <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern> works absolutely fine. Just wondering, where did you put your index.xhtml?