That did it. I was playing around with the entity itself and not with the entity manager. once I changed it to use @In instead of @PersistenceContext and I kept the manager defined in the components.xml it started working fine. At least with all this playing around I learned a bit of the internals of Seam and you got to fix something in the code!! Thanks for the help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4073161#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...