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Upgrading to JakartaEE 10 - can't compile because "cannot access javax.faces.event.FacesEvent"

My project is this web app: https://nocodefunctions.com, open sourced here.

It runs on Payara Community Edition: Payara Micro 5.2022.4

I am moving it to JakartaEE 10 and JSF 3. JakartaEE 10 and Payara 6 (which runs on it) are so recent that NetBeans 15 does not manage them yet.

So I try to develop without NetBeans, directly from the CLI, which is something I am unfamiliar with. I think I can:

  1. compile the project with maven (mvn clean install), which creates an single jar of the app
  2. then deploy the from the command line to the payara server

I am stuck at step 1:

 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.10.1:compile (default-compile) on project jsf-app: Compilation failure:
Compilation failure:
[ERROR] /C:/Users/levallois/open/no code app/webapp/jsf-app/src/main/java/net/clementlevallois/nocodeapp/web/front/importdata/DataImportBean.java:[286,21] cannot access javax.faces.event.FacesEvent
[ERROR]   class file for javax.faces.event.FacesEvent not found
[ERROR] /C:/Users/levallois/open/no code app/webapp/jsf-app/src/main/java/net/clementlevallois/nocodeapp/web/front/functions/TopicsBean.java:[405,37] cannot access javax.faces.event.AjaxBehaviorEvent
[ERROR]   class file for javax.faces.event.AjaxBehaviorEvent not found

I have found a couple of questions on SO that point to the same error, with answers by @BalusC, but I am still stuck.

  • the pom.xml:

    4.0.0

      <groupId>net.clementlevallois.nocodeapp.webfront</groupId>
  <artifactId>jsf-app</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>war</packaging>

  <name>Nocode webapp - jsf app</name>

  <properties>
      <endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir>
      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
      <jakartaee>10.0.0</jakartaee>
      <java.version>19</java.version>
      <maven.compiler.source>19</maven.compiler.source>
      <maven.compiler.target>19</maven.compiler.target>
  </properties>

  <dependencies>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>jakarta.json</groupId>
          <artifactId>jakarta.json-api</artifactId>
          <version>2.1.1</version>
          <type>jar</type>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>jakarta.faces</groupId>
          <artifactId>jakarta.faces-api</artifactId>
          <version>3.0.0</version>
          <type>jar</type>
      </dependency>
      <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish/jakarta.faces -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
          <artifactId>jakarta.faces</artifactId>
          <version>4.0.0</version>
      </dependency>
      <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.eclipse.parsson/parsson -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.eclipse.parsson</groupId>
          <artifactId>parsson</artifactId>
          <version>1.1.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>jakarta.json.bind</groupId>
          <artifactId>jakarta.json.bind-api</artifactId>
          <version>2.0.0</version>
      </dependency>
      <!--5Mb-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
          <artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
          <version>11.0.0</version>
      </dependency>
      <!--809kb-->

          <dependency>
          <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
          <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
          <version>1.4</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.omnifaces</groupId>
          <artifactId>omnifaces</artifactId>
          <version>4.0</version>
      </dependency>
      <!--8kb-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>jakarta.platform</groupId>
          <artifactId>jakarta.jakartaee-api</artifactId>
          <version>${jakartaee}</version>
          <type>jar</type>
      </dependency>
  </dependencies>
      <build>
      <resources>
          <resource>
              <directory>src/main/java</directory>
              <excludes>
                  <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
              </excludes>
          </resource>
      </resources>
      <plugins>
          <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>3.10.1</version>
              <configuration>
              <release>19</release>
          </configuration>
          </plugin>
          <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>3.3.2</version>
              <configuration>
                  <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
              </configuration>
          </plugin>
          <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>3.3.0</version>
              <executions>
                  <execution>
                      <phase>validate</phase>
                      <goals>
                          <goal>copy</goal>
                      </goals>
                      <configuration>
                          <outputDirectory>${endorsed.dir}</outputDirectory>
                          <silent>true</silent>
                          <artifactItems>
                              <artifactItem>
                                  <groupId>jakarta.platform</groupId>
                                  <artifactId>jakarta.jakartaee-api</artifactId>
                                  <version>${jakartaee}</version>
                                  <type>jar</type>
                              </artifactItem>
                          </artifactItems>
                      </configuration>
                  </execution>
              </executions>
          </plugin>
      </plugins>
  </build>
  <!--    <repositories>
      <repository>  
          <id>prime-repo</id>  
          <name>PrimeFaces Maven Repository</name>  
          <url>http://repository.primefaces.org</url>  
          <layout>default</layout>
      </repository>
  </repositories>-->

The relevant part of the faces-config.xml:

<faces-config
    xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
        http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_3_0.xsd"
    version="2.3">
</faces-config>
Solution

  • As of November 2022, Primefaces requires a "jakarta" classifier to make sure it pulls Jakarta dependencies, like so:

    <dependency>
    <groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
    <artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
    <version>12.0.0</version>
    <classifier>jakarta</classifier>
</dependency>