(Woops, I hit submit before I was ready.) Anyway, so that's the bean. And then I have this in foo.jsp: <f:view> | <p> | <h:outputText value="#{requestBean.message}" /> | </p> | <f:view> | Should always work, right? The requestBean has EVENT scope, so it's available in every page. "message" is obviously a property of the RequestBean, because it has a getter and setter. But it does not work. I get this exception: javax.faces.el.PropertyNotFoundException: Expression: '#{requestBean.message}' | at org.apache.myfaces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:392) | Seam is fragile. From the docs, EVENT scope means "every request". The property is there. How can Seam not find it? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966303#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...