Hi, In short, I believe the answer is "Yes" - if your beans are defined as SFSB then methods are only available if exposed via the corresponding @Local or @Remote interfaces. Some of the examples use SFSBs which have the @Stateful annotation while other examples use simple POJOs where no local interface required - as a minimum, only @Name is needed to interact with the bean in the Seam environment. Maybe the examples you have seen use the latter? I hope that helps. If this still doesn't match what you're seeing then can you point me to the example you're looking at? Regards, Chris. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4087237#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...