I've found that this behaviour is dependent on the order of the <ui:insert> tags in the template. Everything works if query is <ui:insert>'ed before results but I get the exception if results is before query: | <div id="container"> | <div><ui:insert name="results" /></div> | <div><ui:insert name="query" /></div> | </div> | I guess this makes sense, results IS loaded before query is declared, but for some reason I thought the injection happened in a later phase. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4120085#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...