"norman.richards(a)jboss.com" wrote : I think you may need to have that JAR around. It seems like that jar would mess up other things. Reading Michael Yuan's blog: http://www.michaelyuan.com/blog/2007/05/29/seam-book-examples-updated-to-... There is now a JIRA open on it: http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1740 "norman.richards(a)jboss.com" wrote : FWIW, this all works fine in the upcoming Seam 1.3. Wait, isn't Seam 1.3 gone, replaced by Seam 2.0? I'm sort of tempted to switch to 2.0 right now but this is for something that needs to be in production use fairly soon and I'm not thrilled to deploy on beta software versions. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4068806#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...