I've been doing some profiling of our application, and finding in some cases that a considerable amount of time per request (> 500 ms) is being taken up by event triggering and handling. When I look at the main source of the events, they appear to come from the MethodContextInterceptor, which sets variables in the method context (an instance of BasicContext). I can understand the desire for pre and post set/get events, but I'm wondering if they are necessary in this case. The way it is now, each component method call results in 10 events being triggered. When we have a component method that is called repeatedly, such as in a JSF control, this really adds up. I looked through the Seam source code, and I didn't see anything that relies on preSetVariable/postSetVariable. My proposal would be a non-event triggering context that does exactly what the BasicContext does, with the exception of the event firing. This could be the superclass to BasicContext. Any thoughts? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4106564#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...