Page definition being ignored

[meetoblivion]

I'm seeing something weird, with one page only.  Doesnt matter where in pages.xml is defined (so no issue w/ precedence order) and no changes depending on where the file is actually.

Environment: Seam 2.1

Here's the entry in pages.xml

        <page view-id="/main/handle.xhtml">
                <param name="hashcode" value="#{accessHandler.hashcode}"/>
                <rewrite pattern="/validate/{hashcode}"/>
        </page>

Here's accessHandler:

@Name("accessHandler")
@Scope(ScopeType.PAGE)
public class AccessHandleManager {
        @In(required=false) String hashcode;

other code ignored for now.  i've tried it with both explicit and implicit accessors.  No errors show up, just doesn't work.  I can access it directly but it doesn't take the get parameter i pass in.  accessing it via url rewrite is returning a 404.

[norman]

Does it work if you don't use @In?

[meetoblivion]

Nope, same result.

[meetoblivion]

Hmm ok found part of the solution.

I still can't get the url rewriting to work, but I realized I had a handle.page.xml in the same directory.  removed it and i can at least pass the parameter in.  still need to get the rewrite working.