Hi Gavin, Yes. I'd done that a couple months ago. When I subsequently updated to the latest version of Seam, my extended class was no longer compatible. Was just checking to see if another mechanism was available ... I'll go ahead and update my class. I'm wondering now if this kind of functionality would be interesting to the Seam community? Perhaps I should create a JIRA for it and contribute my extended class? Regards, Todd View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4002296#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...