That's an interesting possibility. I had intended that people would extend the PDF support by creating a subclass of ITextComponent. There's a tiny bit of XML overhead required to register the tag, but otherwise it's fairly trivial amount of code. I've gone ahead and added p:element experimentally. To use it you'll need to move the itext jar out of the war (into the ear or as an app-server library) or move your components into the WAR. Let me know if it is useful. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035185#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...