&quot;christian.bauer(a)jboss.com&quot; wrote : I think needs a scope, this works for me: | | | | <factory name="themePath" scope="APPLICATION" | | value="#{facesContext.externalContext.request.contextPath}/themes/#{wikiPreferences.themeName}"/> | | | | Otherwise it defaults to ScopeType.UNSPECIFIED, which I think only works for factory methods declared in a component (the scope of the component is used). I'm surprised that some examples in the documentation show without scope, so my explanation is probably not 100% correct. | I added scope="APPLICATION" and I am still not seeing #{basepath} resolving. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4042126#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...