I would like to try this technique out. It seems to me that being able to invoke a component method from a page using this technique is more in the 'spirit' of Seam than pages.xml (which gives Seam a bit of a struts flavor - basically, in pages.xml, you're saying via an XML config file that an action (or component method) in your code is associated with a page or URI pattern). This proposed technique may possibly make for more sophisticated templating strategies in pages that are built up using <ui:composition...> etc. from Facelets as well. my 2 cents. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3987362#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...