@Name is not the only way to make something a Seam component - you can alternatively use components.xml. In fact, I have more and more been leaning away from putting @Entity annotations directly on entity beans, and leaning towards using stuff like the manager component pattern for associating entities with context variables. (eg. the new CRUD framework in CVS uses this approach.) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3974583#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...