OK, I think I'm getting much closer. MailComponent.encode() has the process down, but from within a UIComponent, which renders differently. However, the info from Monkey shows how to render from outside a UIComponent, and org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.FaceletsRenderer showed how to create a ResponseWriter (the one from FacesContext is null). Here is what I have so far: try { | FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(); | ViewHandler viewHandler = facesContext.getApplication().getViewHandler(); | UIViewRoot viewRoot = viewHandler.restoreView(facesContext, "/myDir/myPage.xhtml"); | if(viewRoot == null) { | log.info("restoreView returned null, calling createView"); | viewRoot = viewHandler.createView(facesContext, "/myDir/myPage.xhtml"); | } | StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(); | ResponseWriter originalResponseWriter = facesContext.getResponseWriter(); | if(originalResponseWriter == null) { | log.info("responseWriter is null, creating new one"); | facesContext.setResponseWriter(facesContext.getRenderKit().createResponseWriter(stringWriter, null, null)); | } else { | ResponseWriter cachingResponseWriter = originalResponseWriter.cloneWithWriter(stringWriter); | facesContext.setResponseWriter(cachingResponseWriter); | } | viewHandler.renderView(facesContext, viewRoot); | if(originalResponseWriter != null) | facesContext.setResponseWriter(originalResponseWriter); | String output = stringWriter.getBuffer().toString(); | log.info("Rendered data: {0}", output); | } catch (Throwable t) { | log.error("Error rendering: {0}", t, t.getMessage()); | } Here is the output I got: restoreView returned null, calling createView | responseWriter is null, creating new one | Rendered data: The call to restoreView() returns null, so I call createView(). I suspect that this may be my problem. I'm getting nothing rendered because I am creating a new view, not restoring my existing one. The viewId I'm using is "/myDir/myPage.xhtml", like I would refer to it in in pages.xml. Is this incorrect? If so, what should I use for viewId? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4127949#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...