Yeah, I tried that. It didn't work, which is what made me wonder about the requirements of the injected component. I always thought that the injected component just needed a @Name and a no-arg constructor, and Seam would handle the rest (Component.getInstance, I presume). Caused by: org.jboss.seam.RequiredException: In attribute requires value for component: advancedSearchAction.paginator View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034320#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...