I believe that Seam is not finding your component after the change. Your component has @Name("profileRecord") so it is always accessed via this name. The value on the @In is for when your variable name does not match the Seam component name. So using your example I think this would work @In( value="profileRecord" ) private ProfileRecord searchRecord; Here you're saying "although my field is called searchRecord, the actual component I want to inject is called profileRecord". HTH. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012661#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...