MM> Hi Ed, MM> this is indeed interesting - and I do believe it will be good for the MM> users to not have hundreds of component models in the end. MM> Additionally to Kito's comments, I still see the old managed-bean MM> annotations in chapter 11. Thanks, I'll fix that. Ed -- | ed.burns(a)sun.com | office: 408 884 9519 OR x31640 | homepage: | http://ridingthecrest.com/