Actually, you should avoid casting to HttpServletRequest if at all possible because your application will break if/when you run it as a portlet. ExternalContext has methods available for path information. ExternalContext extCtx = facesContext.getExternalContext(); extCtx.getRequestContextPath(); extCtx.getRequestServletPath(); extCtx.getRequestPathInfo(); etc. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970129#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...