removing the commented-out markup worked - thanks! I think I have bumped into this before with commented-out markup in Facelets. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3957086#3957086 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3957086