Nevermind -- I perused the source and the manual a bit more, and that cleared it up -- plain javabeans are managed by seam, so Seam takes care of adding the interceptors. Since I've little need for EJB's infrastructure, I might just go that route. Reminds me a bit of Spring, but without having to sprinkle Design Patterns or XML throughout my code ... yay :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3973722#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...