anonymous wrote : The backing bean is part of the view No it is not. View connected to the beans by binding expressions. View does not hold references to the beans. In render time, when it is needed to put value in html output it just evaluates binding expression. And then in post time, it evaluates binding expression in another direction to put posted value back to the bean property. There is also method binding for the buttons and links, but it works by the same principles. Facelets do the great thing. It gives a lot of template capabilities, and it get rid of JSP heritage. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959812#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...