5 Replies Latest reply on Jul 1, 2011 1:17 AM by anonym365451

Session scope problem with Firefox5 and WLS 10.3.5

anonym365451 Jun 30, 2011 6:45 AM

Hello,

I wrote a simple application and want to change the RF skin.

I have a simple SessionScoped ManagedBean with String property ('skin')

added reference to that property in the web.xml

and I wrote a simple page containing a rich:panel with header facet and a h:selectOneMenu to change the skin.

The combination Firefox5 and Tomcat7 works fine.

But server and system is as follows:

- Weblogic 10.3.5

(configured with 'deployable libraries' to support JSF2.0)

- Windows 7 (64 bit)

InternetExplorer 8:

With InternetExplorer 8 all works fine. The skin changes. SessionBean remains stable.

Firefox 5:

After changing the skin no change is seen in RichFaces components.

After adding some debug output I found out that the session scoped bean is created new with every request (after every selection in my selectOneMenu the constructor is called). So the value there is always set to the default.

I think that RichFaces is creating a new bean instance.

The problem is also reproducable with deploying richfaces-showcase-4.0.0-final-tomcat6.war in WLS 10.3.5.

Other users have similar problems with Firefox5 (and also with IE9):

http://community.jboss.org/thread/168735?tstart=0

There is said that the session cookie is not send by the browser.

Does anybody know what I can do?

Thanx for your help,

Tommy

1. Re: Session scope problem with Firefox5 and WLS 10.3.5

anonym365451 Jun 30, 2011 7:47 AM (in response to anonym365451)

I found out that if I use privacy mode in Firefox5 than changing the skin works as expected.
But I wonder why. I expect more problems in privacy mode because no cookies etc. will be saved by the browser.

This can only be a workaround for our development and not for our users.
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2. Re: Session scope problem with Firefox5 and WLS 10.3.5

anonym365451 Jun 30, 2011 8:20 AM (in response to anonym365451)

I had
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
<param-value>client</param-value>
</context-param>

Now I changed it to
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
<param-value>server</param-value>
</context-param>

The issue with creating a new bean instance with every request is now gone.
But the Richfaces skin is still not changed (when using non-private mode in FF5).
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3. Re: Session scope problem with Firefox5 and WLS 10.3.5

anonym365451 Jun 30, 2011 8:44 AM (in response to anonym365451)

I reinstalled Firefox5. Now changing the skin works in both private and non-private mode.
Don't ask me why. I did not make a backup of my preferences to be able to compare them.
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4. Re: Session scope problem with Firefox5 and WLS 10.3.5

belal_othman Jun 30, 2011 8:47 AM (in response to anonym365451)

I have problem with deploying RichRaces 4 on weblogic 10.3.5
can u explain the main steps pls
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5. Re: Session scope problem with Firefox5 and WLS 10.3.5

anonym365451 Jul 1, 2011 1:17 AM (in response to belal_othman)

Install the deployable libraries jsf-2.0.war and jstl-1.2.war from [BEA_HOME]/wlserver_10.3/common/deployable-libraries as libraries on every server of your cluster.

Add a weblogic.xml with the following content to your WebApp (in WEB-INF):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <wls:weblogic-web-app xmlns:wls="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app" 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/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.2/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
    <wls:weblogic-version>10.3.5</wls:weblogic-version>
      <wls:library-ref>
        <wls:library-name>jsf</wls:library-name>
        <wls:specification-version>2.0</wls:specification-version>
        <wls:implementation-version>1.0.0.0_2-0-2</wls:implementation-version>
        <wls:exact-match>false</wls:exact-match>
     </wls:library-ref>
     <wls:library-ref>
       <wls:library-name>jstl</wls:library-name>
       <wls:specification-version>1.2</wls:specification-version>
       <wls:implementation-version>1.2.0.1</wls:implementation-version>
       <wls:exact-match>false</wls:exact-match>
     </wls:library-ref>
</wls:weblogic-web-app>

Now let it rock with RF.

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