Hi I have also noticed performance issues when I use EL a lot with table rendering. Don't think it is specific to tables, just a lot of EL resolving going on. Not blaming EL, I am probably using it in ways it shouldn't be. In short when I added rendered property on each rich:column on a table, 6-8 seconds are spent in the render response lifecycle (when rendering about 100 rows). Compared milliseconds, when I remove the EL and just render all columns. There is a thread about it here: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=118257 - Mike View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4084722#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...