Agreed. This threw me off too. Its possible to work around, but counter intuitive. My plus 1 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll(a)Sun.COM&gt; Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:13:12 To: JSR 314 Open Mailing list&lt;JSR-314-OPEN(a)JCP.ORG&gt; Subject: [jsr-314-open] eval of inline scripts I've filed spec bug 616, eval of inline scripts. Currently, the specification doesn't require that <script> tags get evaluated during update or insert operations on the client, nor does it specify how they be evaluated if they are included. Right now, the RI doesn't eval these included scripts - but we plan to do so, as does MyFaces. Given that this behavior was the default for many "legacy" JSF Ajax solutions, I think that's the general user expectation as well. Although there is a eval operation in the XML schema, this is unfortunately insufficient - renderers for custom components, for instance, will already be wrapped in an update operation, and cannot easily do a separate eval operation in the RI. Just wanted to give warning to anyone who may be relying on us *not* doing script eval that's it's going in for FCS, as well as making the case for it's inclusion in the next rev of the spec. Jim