btw, I am able to successfully deploy booking example. Probably a bug in the contactlist example itself rather than seam. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3981556#3981556 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3981556