This happened to be one of the items on my todo list, so here goes. Brian, I saw in Jose's example that he used *.xhtml as the Faces Servlet mapping. I had never thought of that before. I guess I assumed that the Servlet mapping had to be different than the template suffix. So it turns out this is an elegant solution to preventing direct access to *.xhtml files without going through the Faces Servlet. Could you add this recommendation to the Seam Faces documentation. That is, unless someone sees something flawed about this approach. -Dan On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:52, Lincoln Baxter, III <lincolnbaxter(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen#about http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction