As mentioned in the docs you can only use the EL enhancement on method bindings, not value bindings (i.e. a get/is/set) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4019243#4019243 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4019243