This sounds approximately like the way the wiki works - I don't quite get how you are using the macros - you put your wiki:inject tag inline with the wikitext? The Seam wiki add's [<=plugin] to the wikitext grammer, and then includes the relevant plugin at this point. Each plugin has a preferences bean (a bit like the your macro bean I guess). You could probably apply the approach I described in the blog to your include as well (it solves the disappearing components problems) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4038661#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...