ADF-Faces Application on Oracle Application Server Fails With Error java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Factories configured for this Application (Doc ID 1383022.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

On Oracle Application Server AS 10.1.3.5.0, an ADF-Faces application fails while deploying.
Below is the error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Factories configured for this Application. This happens if the faces-initialization does not work at all - make sure that you properly include all configuration settings necessary for a basic faces application and that all the necessary libs are included. Also check the logging output of your web application and your container for any exceptions!
If you did that and find nothing, the mistake might be due to the fact that you use some special web-containers which do not support registering context-listeners via TLD files and a context listener is not setup in your web.xml.

at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:90)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.init(FacesServlet.java:88)
at <PACKAGENAME>.jsf.presentation.ErrorHandlingFacesServlet.init(ErrorHandlingFacesServlet.java:41)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].server.http.HttpApplication.loadServlet(HttpApplication.java:2528)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].server.http.HttpApplication.findServlet(HttpApplication.java:5006)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].server.http.HttpApplication.findServlet(HttpApplication.java:4930)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].server.http.HttpApplication.getRequestDispatcher(HttpApplication.java:3139)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.doProcessRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:775)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:458)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJPRequestHandler.java:313)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJPRequestHandler.java:199)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketReadHandler$SafeRunnable.run(ServerSocketReadHandler.java:260)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.5.0) ].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:303)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
11/09/21 18:25:19.512 form-utils: Servlet error
. . .
11/09/21 18:26:46.8 form-utils: 10.1.3.5.0 Stopped

A typical config looks like this;

<listener>
  <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>

Cause

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