"pete.muir(a)jboss.org" wrote : Well my definition of dependency is absolutely required by - here it isn't a requirement, just the way you choose to structure your app. Well, it is necessary as long as I want to use the component :) If you say don't use RichFaces (particularly trees, not sure about other UI components), then yes, it is not a requirement :) anonymous wrote : 1) In RichFaces 3.1 you have an api jar which contains stuff you may need to reference from your ejbs Aha, that's more like it :) anonymous wrote : 2) In RichFaces 3.1 you also have a xml bound tree which may not have this problem. Hm... I construct my tree from the data from DB, so I'm not quite sure this can really help me. But thanks for mentioning it anyway. RF also needs to provide an optional version of onSelect which doesn't take any parameters. (I'm not sure if does or not). | My understanding is that some UI components require their action beans link to RF libs while others don't. Is that so? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4086576#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...