I would suggest the alternative approach of extending DocumentStore to do the caching for you. You should be able render the document without the user hitting the page using Renderer (as you do for mail). Post any problems you get with this approach and we can look at getting patches into Seam to fix (I've never tested Renderer for PDFs). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4083830#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...