title: h:inputText -Field is visible?
body: <p>i am developing a jsf web application with netbeans. </p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;fieldset&gt;
          &lt;div&gt;
             &lt;h:inputText id="firstname" value="#{loginCtrl.customer.name}" label="Name"&gt;
                    &lt;f:validateLength minimum="3" maximum="8"/&gt;
             &lt;/h:inputText&gt;
          &lt;div&gt;
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I wrote that code but when I deploy it to the apache tomcat server, there is no field shown? Why? h:input has no visibility element?</p>
  
  <p>greetings and thx in advance</p>
  
  <p>PS.: my web.xml file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"&gt;
      &lt;context-param&gt;
          &lt;param-name&gt;javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE&lt;/param-name&gt;
          &lt;param-value&gt;Development&lt;/param-value&gt;
      &lt;/context-param&gt;
      &lt;servlet&gt;
          &lt;servlet-name&gt;Faces Servlet&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
          &lt;servlet-class&gt;javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet&lt;/servlet-class&gt;
          &lt;load-on-startup&gt;1&lt;/load-on-startup&gt;
      &lt;/servlet&gt;
      &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
          &lt;servlet-name&gt;Faces Servlet&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
          &lt;url-pattern&gt;/faces/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
      &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;session-config&gt;
          &lt;session-timeout&gt;
              30
          &lt;/session-timeout&gt;
      &lt;/session-config&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file-list&gt;
          &lt;welcome-file&gt;faces/register.jsf&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;/welcome-file-list&gt;
  &lt;/web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>