hi Pete, Thanks for the quick reply. I get a "java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException" in both cases. Can you please tell me which jars "should be there" and "should not be there" (to avoid duplicate references) in the EAR. Also what changes my web.xml and faces-config.xml files need to use these view handlers. here is the exception snippet: | 06:49:12,132 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/FpRegistration, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp34553FpRegistration.ear-contents/FpRegistration-exp.war/ | 06:49:12,960 ERROR [STDERR] java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException | 06:49:12,960 ERROR [STDERR] at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener$InitFacesContext.getViewRoot(ConfigureListener.java:1690) | 06:49:12,960 ERROR [STDERR] at com.sun.faces.util.MessageFactory.getMessage(MessageFactory.java:113) | 06:49:12,960 ERROR [STDERR] at com.sun.faces.util.MessageUtils.getExceptionMessageString(MessageUtils.java:277) | 06:49:12,960 ERROR [STDERR] at com.sun.faces.util.Util.createInstance(Util.java:477) | | 06:49:13,101 ERROR [[/FpRegistration]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener | javax.faces.FacesException: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException | at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:408) | at org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener.contextInitialized(JBossJSFConfigureListener.java:69) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3854) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4359) | Thanks, Mustafa View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4055968#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...