I'm afraid that's a (fixed) bug in the example. Reference the converter as converter="newlineConverter" View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4038968#4038968 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4038968