Ok, I figured out a way to do this which works nicely. I simply use: <c:set var="showFirstThing" value="#{true}"/> etc. It works. Is this the right way? I remember seeing somewhere that it's bad to use the http://java.sun.com/jstl/core tags within Facelets, so, for example, I never use <c:if> or those things. Is this good advice? Can anyone elaborate on this? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125878#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...