"bsheward" wrote : My understanding is this: | | Seam calls the methods in your session beans when it encounters the action="#{name.action}" declarations, where name is the name of the Seam managed component, and action is the name of the method in the managed component. | | However, before the method actually gets called, the Seam interceptor gets invoked, which populates all the @In and @DataModelSelection annotated fields. After the method invocation, control is passed back to the Seam interceptor and it updates the contexts with the @Out and @DataModel annotated fields. | | Hope this helps... | Thanks, yes that helps, and I understood that. However, the Stateful Session bean is not being called. Nothing happens, or something happens but it just stays on the same page and does not reflect any changes and you can't tell anything happened. However, I know the bean is not being called because I logged some things in those methods to see if they were being called. Is there a way to remote debug the JSF Phase and Seam calls with an IDE? Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3981831#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...