These methods were amoungst several Seam methods in top of our profiler snapshot. It is not just speculation. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4094702#4094702 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4094702