No, it shouldn't take many seconds. JSF does have an overhead, however I'm not an expert on this and so can't provide a definitive answer. Some people have done extensive performance work on JSF/Facelets (Adam Winer springs to mind) - you should be able to find it by googling. N.B. Eelco has basic Seam integration in Wicket (not sure what version of Wicket, or perhaps CVS) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4084841#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...