MyFaces *really* shouldn't be holding hard refs to your components in the JSF tree. That's broken. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3978211#3978211 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3978211