A have searched and found several related posts/issue about problems integrating Seam email when using Icefaces's JSF implementation. Such as:

http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-827
http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-977
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=103086
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=112973

Some of these sort of appear to be old or out of date so I am searching to see if there is a possible work around to get this working.

My environment is Seam 2.0.0.GA, Icefaces 1.6.2, and JBoss 4.2.2. The mail session is configured as a JNDI resource in JBoss and made available to the application using:

<mail:mail-session session-jndi-name="java:/Mail"/>

My facelet pages for the email are taken from the mail example. The renderer is being injected using:

@In
private Renderer renderer;

and the relevant method to send the email is:

public void send() {
 try {
 renderer.render("/distribution/lead.xhtml");
 facesMessages.add("Email sent successfully");
 } catch (Exception e) {
 log.error("Error sending mail", e);
 facesMessages.add(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_INFO, "Email sending failed: " + e.getMessage());
 }
 }

Stacktrace:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory: javax.faces.render.RenderKitFactory
 at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:256)
 at com.icesoft.faces.context.BridgeFacesContext.getRenderKit(BridgeFacesContext.java:184)
 at org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.FaceletsRenderer$RenderingContext.init(FaceletsRenderer.java:104)
 at org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.FaceletsRenderer$RenderingContext.run(FaceletsRenderer.java:77)
 at org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.FaceletsRenderer.render(FaceletsRenderer.java:169)
 at com.onlineinsight.service.interview.DistributionActionBean.send(DistributionActionBean.java:75)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
 at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:112)
 ...
 ...

Thanks,

Michael