What was the xhtml? Facelets eats exceptions which occur e.g. on rendered attribute (I don't know why :( View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4111186#4111186 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4111186