Most of the examples were written before EntityHome came into existence. I know I used it in seam-pay. There I subclassed EntityHome to add some custom persistence logic and make use of the @RequestParameter. I also configured some of the attributes in components.xml. I think for non-trivial projects you will tend to have at least SOME custom logic and would want a subclass, but with Seam there's no need to do that until you are ready. Configure it in XML and when you need something more, you can add the subclass without anything else changing. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012271#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...