That sounds unnecessary (not to mention a hassle) for a project that was already working fine in seam 1.2 . Besides, I tried the relevant XML files from the Seam 2.0 examples, and that didn't help either. Can this be due to the change from MyFaces to Sun's RI ? If so, where do I look for a solution? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116156#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...