Gavin's responses came in while I was composing mine. Thank you for pointing out my JSF error: &quot;gavin.king(a)jboss.com&quot; wrote : "#{foo}" is not a valid value-binding expression in JSF. You need to use "#{foo.someProperty}". I changed my interface BQManager to include: | public void setNameForNewBaz(String nameForNewBaz); | public String getNameForNewBaz(); | and my code for that property in class BQManagerBean to: | @In(required=false) | public void setNameForNewBaz(String nameForNewBaz) { | log.debug("BQManagerBean.setNameForNewBaz(): called with arg:"+nameForNewBaz); | this.nameForNewBaz = nameForNewBaz; | } | @Out(required=false) | public String getNameForNewBaz() { | log.debug("BQManagerBean.getNameForNewBaz(): returning:"+nameForNewBaz); | return nameForNewBaz; | } | private String nameForNewBaz; | and the referencing part of bqmgr.xhtml to: | <h:inputText value="#{bqManager.nameForNewBaz}"/> | but null is being passed to the setter multiple times as seen in this log snippet: anonymous wrote : | 2006-08-02 11:27:34,126 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamExtendedManagedPersistencePhaseListener] beginning transaction prior to phase: RENDER_RESPONSE(6) | 2006-08-02 11:27:35,018 DEBUG [com.orgmob.play.BQManagerBean] BQManagerBean.setNameForNewBaz(): called with arg:null | 2006-08-02 11:27:35,065 DEBUG [com.orgmob.play.BQManagerBean] BQManagerBean.setNameForNewBaz(): called with arg:null | 2006-08-02 11:27:35,081 DEBUG [com.orgmob.play.BQManagerBean] BQManagerBean.setNameForNewBaz(): called with arg:null | 2006-08-02 11:27:35,112 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamExtendedManagedPersistencePhaseListener] committing transaction after phase: RENDER_RESPONSE(6) | 2006-08-02 11:27:35,112 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Lifecycle] <<< End web request | and the problem with no value for the "quux" variable (or null being injected?) remains. I could give more of the log if that would be helpful. So far as I can tell, both inputText values are vanishing. -David View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962583#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...