Thanks Christian - So if I understand you correctly, you are saying that your first choice would always be to use SFSBs unless you were not running in an EJB3 container, in which case you would be limited to using the built-in Seam components (EntityHome, etc) to hold conversational state? But there's no reason you shouldn't use EntityHome and the other Seam Application Framework components if you are running under an EJB3 container, right? Regards, Lawrie View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4019001#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...