What thing we like in seam 2 is the pdf engine based on JSF components taylored for iText As we are moving to CDI, we a re looking for an equivalent engine to produce PDF reports Seam 3 does not seem to have such an engine ready Flyingsaucer (http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer) is almost doing this except that it uses plain JSF/faelets tags, not specific iText tags/components I'm thinking on writing such an engine, based on reusing the seam2 JSF-iText tags/components and on the principle described here: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/10/31/combine-facelets-and-flying-... ie: - write an xhtml report with the seam 2 JSF/iText tags/components exactly as in seam 2 At runtime, have a filter that intercepts the request for such a PDF document (based on extension or request parameter), forward the request to the JSF engine as a standard request to compose the response -> the tags will generate a iText document and attach it in a scoped variable - the filter read the iText object, and read send it to the reponse object or use something similar to what ios described here for rendering the response programatically : http://www.bradchen.com/node/36 This engine would obviously depends on JSF and iText, and maybe on CDI Does this already exist? WDYT?