well i got rid of the tag and it still didnt work after much fiddling about i have found a solution.. for some reason when i used an s:button i could not get the name value but iafter changing this to h:comandButton it worked can anyone explain whats going on here and also i cant seem to see any s: type tags in exadel has this support been added to the jboss tools stuff? or perhaps there is a way to add them manually anyway thanks for the help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4062616#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...