Sorry, I meant, thats where the magic is happening... You would need to build a similar handler to do this programmatically. I did a similar thing for Christian for the wiki a while back. I did blog about the general ideas, rather than the impl: http://pmuir.bleepbleep.org.uk/2007/04/building-plugin-system-in-facelets... So, it all depends on how you are adding the UIDecorate to the tree at the moment... Post some code :p View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044829#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...