Unfortunately, the Seam metamodel (the Component objects) are all created by the servlet context listener. The EJB3 container has no startup hooks, so I can;t really do that stuff at EJB container startup time. But perhaps if you have some funny startup hooks, you could call new initialization().init() from there.... Might require some changes to Seam code. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3977973#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...