"jnorris10" wrote : If a bean name is referenced in EL that does not exist, it is silently ignored. Is there a way to configure the EL resolver to throw and exception in this case? (An exception is thrown when a property of a bean is not found, but not when the root bean name itself is not found). No. anonymous wrote : I am using Seam 1.2.1 and whatever EL resolver comes with that. I notice that in Seam 2.0.0.CR3, jboss-el.jar is used. Is there documentation somewhere for this EL implementation? el-ri. The docs for jboss-el are in the Seam reference docs in the EL chapter. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4100142#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...