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Unable to Start the Portal Managed After Extending WebCenter Portal With a Shared Library : Unable to set the activation state to true for the application "webcenter" (Doc ID 2740861.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 12, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle WebCenter Portal - Version 12.2.1.3.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

 

Unable to start the Portal Managed server after extending WebCenter Portal with a Shared library.
The WC_Portal.out log file shows the following error:

 

ERROR

####<DATE-TIME> <Error> <Deployer> <hostname> <WC_Portal> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '40' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <[severity-value: 8] [rid: 0] [partition-id: 0] [partition-name: DOMAIN] > <BEA-149231> <Unable to set the activation state to true for the application "webcenter".
weblogic.application.ModuleException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find backup for factory javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory.
    at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.start(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:140)
    at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:124)
    at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:233)
    at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:228)
    at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)
...

Caused By: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find backup for factory javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory.
    at javax.faces.FactoryFinderInstance.getFactory(FactoryFinderInstance.java:561)
    at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:283)
    at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.init(FacesServlet.java:350)
...

 

STEPS

 

  1. Extend WebCenter Portal with shared libraries per the following document:

    Developing for Oracle WebCenter Portal
    15 Developing Shared Libraries
    Deploying Extensions to the WebCenter Portal Shared Library (extend.spaces.webapp.war)


  2. Restart the Portal managed server.
    Here you will see the error.

 

 

Cause

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