restrictions using ui:include with factory pattern?

[asookazian]

I was using this:

<ui:include src="/EquipmentProcessingViewModalPanel.xhtml" />

and my @Factory method was not executing.

When I commented the tag above in my main facelet and pasted the modalPanel code directly into the main facelet, it works.

Why?  I was including at the top like this:

<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
     xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
     xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
     xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
     xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
     xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich" 
     xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
     template="/templates/normal.xhtml">
     
     <ui:define name="body">
     
          <ui:include src="/pleaseWaitModalPanel.xhtml" />
          <!-- <ui:include src="/EquipmentProcessingViewModalPanel.xhtml" /> -->
          <ui:include src="/EquipmentProcessingHistoryModalPanel.xhtml" />

but don't think the insert location matters AFAAIK.  thx.