On 12/13/05, Travis Reeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you serious? Does this mean I have to bind any component I want to add > messages to so that I can actually have a reference to the component?
Yes, unless you want to hardcode the fully-qualified ids into your code. Only two things uniquely identify a component -- the component object reference itself and the client id. So you'll need to provide one or the other to your code. Binding is a lot more maintainable than hardcoded client ids.

