But it's still a global message, not "for" your loginPanel. Either remove the "for" and display your global messages, or use facesMessage.addToControl() in the code. "tonylmai" wrote : You're right. | | However, after I've added a panel with id for the message, it's still not displayed. | | <a4j:outputPanel id="loginPanel"> | | <h:panelGrid rendered="#{! empty facesContext.maximumSeverity}"> | | <h:messages for="loginPanel" styleClass="message" /> | | </h:panelGrid> | | Is there anything that I could have erred that caused this message to be dropped after the Authenticator.authenticate() method called? | | Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4053765#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...