I did that and it works. That is cool! I didn't even know about factory elements in components.xml. I might set them up for other things I need, like looking at HTTP headers (user-agent, etc). Given that I can traverse maps in EL that should be a piece of cake. I've been in Servlet-world for a long time so this is quite an adjustment; no more servlets, no more thinking in terms of requests. But it's so obviously superior, once you get it working. Getting it working is non-trivial, and answering, "why is this not working" is not obvious until you've worked in it for a while, but it is an amazing thing once it gets going. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3998636#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...