"CptnKirk" wrote : How are you passing data as a parameter that didn't originate from somewhere Seam does have access? Yes ... of course. The data originates from somewhere else in Seam. But since I'm writing a component with reusability in mind, I don't want to worry about the variable name in the caller's scope. Same as calling methods in plain Java. Inside the method, I don't (want to) know the variable name of the method caller. String name; | print (name); | | public void print(String s) { | ... at this place I don't want to access "name". This is something I did in my BASIC years. | } View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959827#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...