Major Description
When tomcat is shutdown, the following exception can be seen:
Jul 14, 2010 9:33:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStop
SEVERE: Exception sending context destroyed event to listener instance of class org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener
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.
A typical config looks like this;
<listener>
<listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:172)
at org.apache.myfaces.context.servlet.FacesContextImplBase.getApplication(FacesContextImplBase.java:131)
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.AbstractFacesInitializer._dispatchApplicationEvent(AbstractFacesInitializer.java:189)
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.AbstractFacesInitializer.destroyFaces(AbstractFacesInitializer.java:197)
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.contextDestroyed(StartupServletContextListener.java:137)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:3882)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stop(StandardContext.java:4516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.removeChild(ContainerBase.java:924)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.undeployApps(HostConfig.java:1189)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.stop(HostConfig.java:1160)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:313)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.stop(ContainerBase.java:1086)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.stop(ContainerBase.java:1098)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.stop(StandardEngine.java:448)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.stop(StandardService.java:584)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.stop(StandardServer.java:744)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stop(Catalina.java:628)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:603)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
This happens when myfaces api and impl are set on server lib instead WEB-INF/lib. A simple var that destroy only when the server has been initialized is enough.