Splitting faces-config.xml into multiple parts

Hey Everybody,
I'm trying to split up my faces-config.xml file into application specific and deployment specific parts. I've managed to everything set-up so far but I'm having a problem with beans. I've got a bean which contains most of the application specific attributes but the problem is that some of the attributes are deployment specific and some are application specific.
In the past, I could get around this by having two faces-config.xml files which each defined the bean but only specified "their" attributes. But I've now found that I can only define the bean only once. The bean will get the attributes from one file but not the other. So how can I get around this? Could I do a faces-config.xml include statement? Do I have to create a deployment-specific bean?
Mark

We have been referencing the same managed bean in different faces-config.xml files for a couple of years and it really did work until the latest release of JDeveloper. What we had been doing was to put properties that would change between the development and deployed versions in different faces-config.xml files; the goal being to isolate all the properties that needed to be changed for deployment in a single file that we could automatically replace with Ant when we build the production release.
But just because it worked in the past doesn't mean that it was supposed to work.
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