java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid URL Pattern: [xhtml]

Question

I am trying to deploy a very simple & my first JSF application (following a really good tutorial by BalusC) on glassfish local server. I completed all the steps to create the application. And when I tried to deploy the application on the glassfish server, it just failed with the following exception message:-

    cannot Deploy Playground
    Deployment Error for module: Playground: Exception while deploying the app : 
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid URL Pattern: [xhtml]

Could anyone explain where is the fault and how can I amend it ?

Answer 1

This is not a valid url-pattern. You can arrange the mapping as prefix mapping or extension mapping (from the JSF 2.0 specification):

Prefix mapping:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name> faces-servlet-name </servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Extension mapping:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name> faces-servlet-name </servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>