1) s:button/s:link don't submit the form, they just perform the action 2) Yes, you'll need to include the source to be able to set break points. If you are still stuck, see if you can reproduce the problem in a new seam-gen project. If you can reproduce it, please send me a zip of the project with the lib directory removed (and let me know what version of Seam you used). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4007569#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...