JBWEB004192: A literal value was specified for attribute ... that is defined as a deferred method with a return type of void. JSP.2.3.4 does not permit literal values in this case in JBoss EAP 6

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Issue

  • We are migrating a legacy application to JBOss EAP 6.x and it is failing on one of our JSF / JSP files with this error:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp(7,4) JBWEB004192: A literal value was specified for attribute valueChangeListener that is defined as a deferred method with a return type of void. JSP.2.3.4 does not permit literal values in this case
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:42)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:145)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:96)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.checkXmlAttributes(Validator.java:1115)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.visit(Validator.java:844)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$CustomTag.accept(Node.java:1530)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2377)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visitBody(Node.java:2427)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.visit(Validator.java:862)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$CustomTag.accept(Node.java:1530)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2377)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visitBody(Node.java:2427)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.visit(Validator.java:862)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$CustomTag.accept(Node.java:1530)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2377)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visitBody(Node.java:2427)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visit(Node.java:2433)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Root.accept(Node.java:495)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2377)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator.validateExDirectives(Validator.java:1768)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:211)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:359)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:339)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:326)
    org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:606)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:308)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:309)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:242)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)
    com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.executePageToBuildView(Unknown Source)
    com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(Unknown Source)
    com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(Unknown Source)
    com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Unknown Source)
    com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(Unknown Source)
    javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(Unknown Source)

The JSP is :

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<f:view>
<html>
  <body>
    <h:form>
        <h:selectOneRadio id="radio" valueChangeListener="#{bean.handleValueChange}" value="#{bean.value}">
          <f:selectItem itemLabel="One" itemValue="1"/>
        </h:selectOneRadio>
    </h:form>
  </body>
</html>
</f:view>

The web.xml specifies 2.3 version :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
   ...
</web-app>

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.x

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