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Before I take up anyone's precious time with all the details, can anyone tell my some possible reasons why I'd get an http 404 starting up my app? It seems that I get the 404 unless I type in

http://{host}:{port}/{rootContext}/home.seam

I'm using Maven 2.0.9 and I'm refactoring POMs a bit to clean things up. It used to work without the "/home.seam".

It appears as if the servlet container part isn't even getting the hit -- nothing shows up in the log. Now when I enter ".../bogus.seam", I get a 404 and some fanfare in the log.

If I enter ".../index.html", there's a 404 and nothing in the log, and I know index.html is there, right where it should be.

Sigh... at least it's an interesting problem. Any ideas?

Never mind. It turned out to be a packaging issue. Because I learned Seam using seam-gen, I never took notice of things like "index.html". In refactoring my POMs, I screwed up the maven-war-plugin 'packagingIncludes' parameter, and omitted this file. Duh!

You can specify a "welcome-page" either using pages.xml or web.xml....which are you using? In your pages.xml, you can use Seam to define the welcom page with the Code:

no-conversation-view-id="home.xhtml"

property.

or you can use the jsf-ish way in web.xml similar to:-
Code:

    <welcome-file-list>
         <welcome-file>home.html</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list>

Have you done either of these?

I used the "no-conversation-view-id" to no effect, because my home page requires the user to be logged in. They were supposed to be redirected to said page, but were not.

I think it was a combination of wrong things.

Once the index.html redirect to "home.seam" was in place, everything was as it should be.

Thanks for your kind reply! This forum is great.