Thanks Sergey and Max. All: please vote on the following Jira issue to raise the priority of getting the VPE to handle "absolute" paths. http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-924 This is critical for our project since our pages use nested directories to organize the page facelets. Templates use 'absolute' paths so that they are the same (and hence cut/pastable) no matter what source facelet they are called from. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117614#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...