Looks like it was the key that it couldn't find. Your question prompted me to take another look at the properties file. In it I had properties like: | commDevice.title.name=Name | commDevice.title.version=Version | Which then I changed to the following... and it worked! | commDeviceTitleName=Name | commDeviceTitleVersion=Version | Thank you very much for your prompt reply! This will get me to continue to learn Seam more. What prevents period, ".", separated properties from working? Sincere thanks for developing Seam! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3983265#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...