"petemuir" wrote : If you want to use the . syntax in the properties file you'll need to reference it as #{messages['foo.bar']} - #{messages.foo.bar} won't work afaik. If Seam wasn't able to find the resource it would just print the key back to you - so I suspect there is some problem resolving the h: tags - check the generated html unfortunately the generated html looks fine, and if I print an explicit value with the <h:outputText value="someValue"/> it works fine. I did try using the #{messages['foo.bar']} syntax within an <h:outputText/> in the example I posted above and have also tried it using the inline syntax, but neither work. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4001964#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...