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I'm using TomEE. I was under impression that TomEE already has the JSF IMplementation Libraries.

So when create an Eclipse project, I follow the documentation and choose Library Provided By Target Runtime

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It reads this facet requires jsf implementation library to be present on project classpath. By disabling library configuration, user takes on responsibility of configuring classpath appropriately via alternate means

So I go ahead and add all the bundled jars that come with TomEE ...\apache-tomee-webprofile-1.7.4\lib (this includes myfaces-api-2.1.17.jar and myfaces-impl-2.1.17.jar)

Then I Run on Server the following test xhtml . But it renders a blank page. Obviously, the xhtml was not compiled. So the bundled TomEE jars did NOT kick in. How can I make those bundled TomEE jars compile my test xhtml ? 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
    xmlns:a="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/passthrough">

    <h:head>
        <title>Hello World - Input Form</title>
    </h:head>
    <h:body>

        <h:form>
            <h:inputText id="name" value="#{theUserName}" 
                            a:placeholder="What's your name?" />

            <h:commandButton value="Submit" action="myresponse" />
        </h:form>

    </h:body>
</html>
Emily
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    You said yourself, TomEE already provides JSF libraries, why exactly are you still selecting "User Library" instead of "Library provided by Target Runtime"? – BalusC May 23 '16 at 07:19
  • @BalusC Because Eclipse does NOT compile `xhtml` unless I download `JSF` libraries – Emily May 23 '16 at 13:35
  • I added the detailed explanation. I understand that the test xhtml was simply not compiled . The `JSF` tags were not interpreted correctly . This can only happen if the `JSF` libraries did not kick in to interpret the tags – Emily May 23 '16 at 13:50
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    Is your blank page problem answered here? http://stackoverflow.com/q/3112946 If JSF libraries were not found, you'd get ClassNotFoundException on FacesServlet instead and the webapp deployment would block altogether. – BalusC May 23 '16 at 13:59
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    @BalusC Thank you very much. Just as you said the answer is there `change the from /faces/* to *.xhtml` – Emily May 23 '16 at 14:24
  • It is a duplicate. I'm not sure if I should delete it. Please let me know – Emily May 23 '16 at 14:26
  • Duplicates make search engines happy with new keywords. Deletions account towards question ban threshold. – BalusC May 23 '16 at 14:27

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TomEE has MyFaces as JSF implementation in tomee/lib folder. Worse case add it referencing myfaces-api there but ensure to not put it in the war during packaging.

Romain Manni-Bucau
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