I had an empty seam.properties file in WEB-INF/classes and it works. Thanks a lot for your help Pete. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4094568#4094568 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4094568