Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I have the beginnings of a new JSF/Facelets app up and running locally using
apache-tomcat-5.5.12
jdk1.5.0_05

server side I am running tomcat-5.5.9 and it looks like JDK1.5.0_05

but when I WAR everything up and deploy it to my server and browse to
http://davesplanet.net:8080/PaperTrade/index.jsf
I get

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
javax.faces.application.Application.getELResolver(Application.java:443)
com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl.getELContext(FacesContextImpl.java:172)
javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.setLocale(UIViewRoot.java:900)
com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.createView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:366)
com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.createView(FaceletViewHandler.java:782)
org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.restoreView(LifecycleImpl.java:141)
org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:64)
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:244)


The WAR's WEB-INF/lib contains mostly files downloaded from the June 6 facelets-1.1.9 draft release:
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 118,726 commons-beanutils-1.6.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 118,726 commons-beanutils.jar
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 46,725 commons-codec-1.3.jar
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 165,119 commons-collections-2.1.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 165,119 commons-collections.jar
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 139,966 commons-digester-1.7.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 109,096 commons-digester.jar
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 68,756 commons-logging-1.0.3.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 68,756 commons-logging.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 24,432 el-api.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 97,471 el-ri.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 315,382 jsf-api.jar
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 291,366 jsf-facelets.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 1,136,609 jsf-impl.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 50,491 jsp-api.jar
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 21,029 jstl.jar
05/02/2006 09:54 PM 112,249 junit-4.1.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 6,882 maven-repository-importer-1.1.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 252,186 myfaces-api-1.1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 516,661 myfaces-impl-1.1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 246,317 mysql-connector-java-3.0.17-ga-bin.jar
06/12/2006 10:29 AM 15,420 portlet.jar
11/09/2006 04:49 PM 393,259 standard.jar


the very simplified index.jspx looks like this:

<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="2.0"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<f:view>
Welcome to PaperTrade.net!
</f:view>
</jsp:root>

I get noting in the logs when I shift-reload the web page, even after restarting Tomcat. Interesting, in preparing this post I killed the logs and restarted Tomcat and I get a clean startup in catalina.err but in catalina.out I find this apparent startup problem:

...
[Loaded javax.faces.event.PhaseListener from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-api.jar]
[Loaded javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-api.jar]
[Loaded javax.faces.convert.EnumConverter from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-api.jar]
[Loaded javax.servlet.jsp.JspFactory from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/jsp-api.jar]
[Loaded com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/el-ri.jar]
[Loaded com.sun.el.ValueExpressionLiteral from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/el-ri.jar]
Nov 12, 2006 9:53:40 PM com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener registerELResolverAndListenerWithJsp
SEVERE: Error Instantiating ExpressionFactory
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.registerELResolverAndListenerWithJsp(ConfigureListener.java:1876)
at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:565)
at com.sun.faces.config.GlassFishConfigureListener.contextInitialized(GlassFishConfigureListener.java:46)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3669)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:788)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:677)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:473)
...

Alright, I've beat my head against the wall enough tonight, time to break down and beg for help. Thanks!