You're not doing anything wrong. This is just the way it behaves. I'm sure there is a lot more which happens but most basically it's this: 1. The commandButton initiates the request 2. Seam creates the component, if it doesn't exist 3. Performs any and all injection for the component 4. Those data members which have factory methods associated, Seam invokes the methods 5. If a @Create method is defined, Seam calls it 6. The originally requested action method is invoked. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046857#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...