Button Action Not Firing in JSF Part II

Seems there's a lot of old problems resurfacing today.

As I went to test the navigation in my nifty new Messenger portlet I found the buttons doing absolutely nothing.  I was using static JSF navigation...  Nothing.  I tried a test action method and a test button... nothing.

The environment:

Windows 7
ICEFaces 1.8.1
Liferay 6
Tomcat 6

Guess what?

ICEFaces compresses its JavaScript resources when interacting with your browser.  Generally if users are expected to use Internet Explorer you have to configure your ICEFaces not to compress those resources because IE can't handle it.

Well it seems Chrome and Firefox can't handle it either these days, at least not in a Liferay 6 environment.

Add this to your web.xml:

<context-param>
<param-name>com.icesoft.faces.compressResources</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>

And all will be well.