Hi, I am trying to access a message defined in my messages_en.properties file from my backing Java code per the instructions in the Seam manual in the localization/internationalization section. I am doing something like this: @In("#{messages['l.someDbTable.usexCol']}") private String ORIENTATION_USEX; @In("#{messages['l.someDbTable.useyCol']}") private String ORIENTATION_USEY; private final SelectItem[] ORIENTATION_ITEMS = new SelectItem[] { new SelectItem(this.ORIENTATION_USEX), new SelectItem(this.ORIENTATION_USEY) }; Doing this results in a NullPointerException at the SelectItem array declaration. I am assuming I need to specify what messages is somewhere in an xml config file. Note that I can refer to messages in my xhtml front end code as in: #{messages['l.someDbTable.useyCol']} In my faces_config.xml I have this : <message-bundle>messages/Models</message-bundle> <message-bundle>messages</message-bundle> <view-handler>com.icesoft.faces.facelets.D2DSeamFaceletViewHandler</view-handler> but I am not sure how relevant this is. Can you provide a solution or a more detailed source on using localization in Seam? Thanks! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4074913#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...