I don't see how a component could be something else than statefull or stateless. quote from the book: "JBoss ® Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE" anonymous wrote : we would not need the @Stateful annotation on the POJO. Seam POJO components are stateful by default. And it has the default conversation scope (see Chapter 7, Conversations) if the @Scope is not specified http://safari.informit.com/search?isbn=9780131347960&searchfor=Search... well, maybe it's just a matter of definition Do you I maybe mix it up with 'scope'? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121765#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...