"chane" wrote : In our xhtml (facelets) we used to (Seam 1.0) have to use a $ in place of the dot to access these components. We are in the process of upgrading to 1.2 and it looks like we no longer have to do the substitution. Just wanted to confirm that this is true and we aren't doing something by mistake. The manual uses . rather than $ so it should be fine http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.2.1.GA/reference/en/html/concepts.html#d0e2797 anonymous wrote : Is it possible to use dot to name Outjected/Factory variables. I think it should be, so file a bug if this isn't working View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4036374#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...