OK. So, I got the contactlist example running on JSF 1.2. There were 2 bugs in the JSF RI: (1) the problem I have reported to Roger. I have committed a fix to Seam, to work around this bug. (2) a problem where there is a wierdo EL bug when using the deprecated JSF 1.1 style VariableResolver (which Seam uses). I tried creating a JSF 1.2 ELResolver and got it working with that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979513#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...