You should generally not need entities to be seam components. Generally entities are part of the state of components and not components in their own right. Sometimes it may make sense to separate the view from the application components or to provide instances for framework components like EntityHome, but the general rule should be to not declare entities as components. When you do, you will probably want them to be declared in XML and not on the entity. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027245#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...