Its a problem in Seam's exception handling stuff, which I am right now in the process of rewriting. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4010557#4010557 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4010557