You might be better asking this on the facelets list - I'm pretty sure it has been discussed there in the past. http://facelets.dev.java.net View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4001272#4001272 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4001272