Is there a way to have a seam managed bean (regular POJO in my case) get created without it being immediately used (injected, or referenced in a value expression)? My problem is that I am initializing the bean using a request parameter. The request parameter disappears once the user gets redirected to the first page of my pageflow. The only thing I can think of is to have a separate bean handle the action method with it being injected. That seems a bit silly though -- creating a bean simply to cause the creation of another. Hopefully that makes sense... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4041088#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...