"bfo81" wrote : BUT: What about casting? I mean when you access the employee, e.g. | <h:outputText value="#{employee.name}" /> | then JSF accesses the getName() method of the employee object. But since this one is a java.lang.Object and not a Employee I fear that we might get a MethodNotFoundError. Or is the reflection mechanism in Java smart enough for this? No problem. EL totally ignores the declared type. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3957058#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...