Sorry, bad example. One uses an action attribute, the other a child tag. <page view-id="/searchResults.xhtml" action="#{appManager.initAction}"> | <!-- some navigation rules --> | </page> | <page view-id="/searchResults.xhtml"> | <action execute="#{appManager.initAction}" /> | <!-- some navigation rules --> | </page> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4072823#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...