"ngeadah" wrote : Is there any way to access the HttpServletResponse within a Seam component? I ask since I need a component that handles downloading files; this needs to set the mime type, the header and the outpustream. I'd hate to develop a servlet just for this since I'd really like to use injection and the persistence context as part of this component. | | Any thoughts? Avoid using the HttpServletResponse directly if you can. Use the ExternalContext instead. This should do it: @In (value="#{facesContext.externalContext}") private ExternalContext extCtx; ..... ..... ..... extCtx.setResponseCharacterEncoding("encoding"); View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3983915#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...