I may not be understanding your question entirely but I believe you would use Spring JDBC with Seam the same as you would without Seam since Seam doesn't really provide any kind of JDBC features. The main reason you might want to use Seam's JPA/Hibernate with Spring (the spring+seam integration) is to take advantage of conversation scoped persistence contexts. Does that make sense? Mike View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4107838#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...