The given Seam examples and documentation isn't PhD work, or even that complex. It does try and provide a complete example (non-trivial) and it does assume a certain foundation. In the case of your team, can I suggest some training. At least on JSF and Hibernate/JPA and then sprinkle in some EJB3 and Seam if available. I believe that JBoss offers training on all of these technologes. I have also had great experience with training from ArcMind. You should be able to get up to speed in about a week. The development team at my organization made a previous technology leap to the one you're making, and let me say that a week of on-site training (available for around $10-15k depending on size) was money very well spent. You'll see that @Factory and @Unwrap are not magic. And you'll see how Seam can allow for a tremendious line of code reduction vs alternative best practice uses of JSF/EJB3/JPA. In the end this should allow for much easier code readability and smaller modules. Which all equals fewer calls on vacation. I and others are always willing to help here on the forums, but to get the most of out what we're saying about Seam I think training in other areas would go a long way. At the very least you'd no longer be trying to learn 5 things at once, and could focus on doing Seam well. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970835#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...