Your problem seems to make sense to me. You basically want a method something like: Component.createComponent(componentClass) which would return a Seam-wrapped instance of componentClass that was not stored in any context. The main thing this loses, though, is any ability for Seam to track the lifecycle of these "disconnected components". Since lifecycle tracking (and persistence context handling) is one of Seam's primary benefits, I can see why Gavin isn't too focused on this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3967595#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...