Hmm. I have to say I haven't seen this before. Can you get the mail example working? I would suggest following it's layout - jboss-seam-mail.jar and jboss-seam-ui.jar, jsf-facelets.jar in WEB-INF/lib rather than the ear (and really myfaces-api/impl as well) Otherwise, I would suggest wrapping the EL in the body inside h:outputText to see if that makes any difference. Otherwise, can I'll need you to submit a testcase to JIRA. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4016726#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...