I would suggest not doing this via binding, but via a facelets component handler - it's harder to understand, but plays with the JSF lifecycle much better afaics. The work is done by faceletContext.includeFacelet("/path/to/facelet.xhtml") , but facelets is quite fragile as to how use this call (without components getting pruned from the tree). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044902#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...