"jsimone" wrote : | seam-gen or the docs are incorrect. | Well, web.xml has a list of welcome files which are looked for when a web context is hit without a specific page. It finds index.html which immediately redirects to home.seam (I understand that this mechanism is being improved on in the next Servlet spec). the ".seam"-extension is mapped to the Seam servlet which means seam starts working on "home.xhtml" or "home.jsp" depending on the configured view technology. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4124663#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...