The reason that you can't easily provide static parameters to pages.xml is that it is not normally a good design choice. If you are using seam-gen/seam application framework then you would be much better off using an EntityQuery and components.xml to specify the default order. This also gets around the problem of ql injection christian discusses. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4055194#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...