PropertyNotFoundException Target Unreachable, identifier ‘patientBean’ resolved to null

PropertyNotFoundException Target Unreachable, identifier ‘patientBean’ resolved to null

I have been trying to get a simple @ManagedBean example working without the use of faces-config.xml. My bean is fairly simple:

@ManagedBean(name = "patientBean")
@SessionScoped
public class PatientBean {
    Integer randomInt = null;
    Integer userNumber = null;
    String response = "test";
    private long maximum = 10;
    private long minimum = 0;

But when I try to access this through a simple facelet page such as:

<h:inputText
 id="userNo"
 value="#{patientBean.userNumber}">

I get this error complainign about the managed bean target:

javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /greeting.xhtml @23,55 value="#{patientBean.userNumber}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'patientBean' resolved to null
	at com.sun.faces.facelets.el.TagValueExpression.getType(TagValueExpression.java:100)
	at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicInputRenderer.getConvertedValue(HtmlBasicInputRenderer.java:95)
	at javax.faces.component.UIInput.getConvertedValue(UIInput.java:1030)
	at javax.faces.component.UIInput.validate(UIInput.java:960)
	at javax.faces.component.UIInput.executeValidate(UIInput.java:1233)
	at javax.faces.component.UIInput.processValidators(UIInput.java:698)
	at javax.faces.component.UIForm.processValidators(UIForm.java:253)
	at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processValidators(UIComponentBase.java:1214)
	at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processValidators(UIComponentBase.java:1214)
	at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processValidators(UIViewRoot.java:1172)
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.ProcessValidationsPhase.execute(ProcessValidationsPhase.java:76)
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118)
	at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:395)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1534)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:281)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:655)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:98)
	at com.sun.enterprise.web.PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.invoke(PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.java:91)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:162)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:326)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:227)
	at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:170)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:822)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:719)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1013)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:225)
	at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137)
	at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104)
	at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90)
	at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79)
	at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54)
	at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59)
	at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71)
	at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532)
	at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

While I have searched the net looking for the answer without luck, I stubled upon the issue. In the maven war plugin, there was an attribute to <archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses> which creates a jar of all classes and adds that jar to the WEB-INF/lib directory.

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>${plugin-war-version}</version>
 <configuration>
 <archive>
 <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
 </archive>
 <strong><archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses></strong>
 <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
 </configuration>
 </plugin>

This causes the bean to not be found unless I mapped it directly into the faces-config.xml:

<managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>patientBean</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>com.baselogic.chapter03.web.PatientBean</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>

setting this to false in the maven-war-plugin allowed me to remove the faces-config.xml entry.

<archiveClasses>false</archiveClasses>