How to include PHP script into JSF page under tomcat or resin?

Question

I have worked JSF application under Tomcat. In the same project I configured, also using, PHP as described in Caucho Resin site (Link)

But when I try to include separated PHP working script into JSG page, page is fails.

I have test.php with:

<?php
print "hello world";
?>

in web.xml I have added:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>Quercus Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.caucho.quercus.servlet.QuercusServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>license-directory</param-name>
        <param-value>WEB-INF/licenses</param-value>
    </init-param>
</servlet> 

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Quercus Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.php</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Also added resin.jar into web-inf/lib

when I call test.php directly it is working, but when I try to include like this:

<ui:include src="test.php"/>

or write php code direct in JSF page it fails.

Here is the exception:

javax.faces.view.facelets.FaceletException: Error Parsing /test.php: Error Traced[line: 5] Premature end of file.
    at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.SAXCompiler.doCompile(SAXCompiler.java:429)
    at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.SAXCompiler.doCompile(SAXCompiler.java:403)
    at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:124)
    at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory.createFacelet(DefaultFaceletFactory.java:319)
    at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory.access$100(DefaultFaceletFactory.java:92)

Any body tried this kind of experiment?

Answer 1

When you're calling your PHP page directly, it is being processed by your Quercus Servlet with no problem at all. But when you call your PHP page included inside a non-PHP page, like a JSP (or JSF or XHTML or another file extension), your Quercus Servlet is not processing it thus giving you this errors.

You could do a mix of parsing the page with both Quercus Servlet and/or Faces Servlet (I haven't tested this so I'm not sure if it will work). Another option could be not using the PHP scripts in your JSP/JSF pages directly but using them to process the actions i.e. <form action="test.php">.

Note that this is not a JSF nor Tomcat nor Resin nor Caucho problem, it is a servlet problem or an ever worse, a design problem. This leads to a question: Why would you want such an odd design in your web application?