In Michael Yuan's seam book, there is a secion on avoiding excessive bijection.
I have tried to implement this idea in a test app with the following code:

the controller

@Stateful
@Name("indexPage")
@Scope(org.jboss.seam.ScopeType.SESSION)
public class IndexPageBean implements IndexPage {

 @Logger
 private Log log;

 @In
 FacesMessages facesMessages;

 private Property property;


 private Borrower borrower;
.
.
.
 public Borrower getBorrower()
 {
 return borrower;
 }
 public void setBorrower(Borrower borrower)
 {
 this.borrower = borrower;
 }
.
.
.

the view

<div id="Borrower">
 <h2>Borrower</h2>
 <form name="BorrowerForm" id="BorrowerForm" jsfc="h:form">
 <div id="ageDiv">
 <label>AGE:
 <input type="text" name="textfield" jsfc="h:inputText" value="#{indexPage.borrower.age}"/>
 </label>
 </div>
 <div id="grossIncomeDiv">
 <label>GROSS:
 <input type="text" name="textfield" jsfc="h:inputText" value="#{indexPage.borrower.grossIncome}"/>
 </label>
 </div>
 <div id="submitBorrower">
 <input type="submit" jsfc="h:commandButton" id="submitBorrowerButton" action="#{indexPage.submitBorrower}" value="Submit" />
 </div>
 </form>
 </div>
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I am getting the error:

/home.xhtml @16,101 value="#{indexPage.borrower.age}": Bean: org.javassist.tmp.java.lang.Object_$$_javassist_91, property: borrower

with a stacktrace of

javax.faces.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /home.xhtml @16,101 value="#{indexPage.borrower.age}": Bean: org.javassist.tmp.java.lang.Object_$$_javassist_91, property: borrower
at com.sun.facelets.el.LegacyValueBinding.getValue(LegacyValueBinding.java:58)
at javax.faces.component.UIOutput.getValue(UIOutput.java:77)
at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.RendererUtils.getStringValue(RendererUtils.java:217)
at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.html.HtmlTextRendererBase.renderInput(HtmlTextRendererBase.java:135)

Why? It seams to be saying that I do not have a borrower property in my controller, yet that is not true. Is it because I must first initialize something? The book gives a very similar example, but I must be missing something.