"christian.bauer(a)jboss.com" wrote : @Startup is not related to the session context, so I don't understand what you want. However, we had some other requests for more fine-grained interception of the Seam startup procedure and there might be open JIRA issues you can attach your request to. Search first, if nothing is there, open a new one. | As I understand it @Startup does have to do with the session context. According to the documentation (22.1) "@Startup Specifies that a session scope component is started immediately at session creation time." I guess I was hoping there was some way to control whether it "Specifies that a session scope component is started immediately before/at/after session creation time." rather than simply "at". I'll check for requests. Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4041781#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...