Hi, i added the following entry to components.xml <web:character-encoding-filter encoding="UTF-8" | override-client="true" | url-pattern="*.seam"/> and when i deploy the ear i get the following error at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:610) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:225) | Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 58 of document : The prefix "web" for element "web:character-encoding-filter" is not bound. Nested exception: The prefix "web" for element "web:character-encoding-filter" is not bound. | at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:482) | at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:343) | at org.jboss.seam.util.XML.getRootElement(XML.java:16) | at org.jboss.seam.init.Initialization.initComponentsFromXmlDocument(Initialization.java:133) | ... 92 more can anyone help? i use seam 1.21GA thanks and regards, hasc View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4048219#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...