HI, The getter method is; public String getName() { System.out.println(" FirstPageBB.getName() > "+name); return name; } I can see in Tomcat the following; Initialising FirstPageBB ! FirstPageBB.getName() > initialValue 16:06:16,142 ERROR [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Cannot get value for expression '#{FirstPage BB.name}' at org.apache.myfaces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java :402) at javax.faces.component.UIOutput.getValue(UIOutput.java:77) at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.RendererUtils.getStringValue (RendererUtils.java:217) Thanks, Brian View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4060883#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...