Is this true? anonymous wrote : @Startup | String[] depends() - A list of other application scope components that should be started before this one, if they are installed. should be: anonymous wrote : @Startup | String[] depends() - A list of other similarly scope components that should be started before this one, if they are installed. Meaning that SESSION scoped components can only depend on other SESSION scoped components (and likewise for APPLICATION). Seems to me that this is the only possibility, since SESSION scoped comps are inherently dependent on the application being started. http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.2.1.GA/api/org/jboss/seam/annotations/Startu... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044792#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...