Thanks again for your help Pete - I feel I'm getting close to that "A-ha!" moment... Are you saying that all you have to do to make a Seam-managed Javabean component is inject EntityManager and mark all methods as @Transactional and it will then give you the same behaviour as a SFSB (i.e. the only difference is that Seam handles storing and fetching the component's state from the Http Session instead of SFSBs EJB container-managed state management)? I suppose what I am really trying to grasp is whether you can use a Seam-managed Javabean component exactly like you would a SFSB? Or do you have to code your apps differently? Cheers, Lawrie View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4019309#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...