Richfaces Styles Not Display In OC4J 11 Preview 4

Richfaces 3.2 require the xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar which is not available in OC4J 11 Preview 4.

1. Download xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar from this url look for version 2.7.1


2. Create a directory named "xerces.xml" in oc4j/lib/java/shared


3. Changed to the new created directory and create another directory name "2.7"


4. Unzip the file xalan-j_2_7_1-bin-2jars.tar.gz and copy xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar into oc4j/lib/java/shared/xerces.xml/2.7


5. Modify your orion-application.xml to add the new shared library, the code are listed below:
   

   
   <imported-shared-libraries>
   <remove-inherited name="oracle.xml">
   <import-shared-library name="xerces.xml">
   </import-shared-library>
   

   
   


6. Modify your oracle server.xml to setup the xerces.xml shared library. Add the code listed below in your server.xml
   

   
   <shared-library name="xerces.xml" version="2.7" root-dir="${oracle.home}/lib/java/shared">
   <code-source path="*">
   </shared-library>
   

Deploy Richfaces In To OC4J 11 Preview 4

The OC4J 11 Preview 4 didn't included JSF 1.2.05 which is required my RichFaces 3.2.0 SR1. Follow steps listed below to upgrade the OC4J 11 JSF library to version 1.2.05.

1. Download the JSF 1.2.05 at this url


2. Unzip jsf-1_2_05.zip into a temp directory.


3. Copy jsf-api.jar and jsf-impl.jar in the temp/jsf-1.2_05-b06-FCS/lib directory into temp directory.


4. Rename the jsf-impl.jar to jsf-ri.jar in the temp directory.


5. Remove the jsf-api.jar and jsf-ri.jar in the oc4j/lib/java/shared/oracle.jsf/1.2


6. Copy jsf-ri.jar and jsf-api.jar in temp directory into the oc4j/lib/java/shared/oracle.jsf/1.2

Now you can start your OC4J and console will report the new version of JSF being running on the OC4J.