It turns out there is no diffence in the meaning of the two packages javax.faces.webapp.pdl.facelets and javax.faces.webapp.pdl.facelets.tag. Therefore, I'm removing the .tag package and putting everything up into the .facelets package. Ed -- | ed.burns at sun.com | office: 408 884 9519 OR x31640 | homepage: | http://ridingthecrest.com/