You only have to use @Remote when you plan to make the session bean available to clients outside the container JVM (for a client application). There are a number of advantages to using EJB3 session beans instead of POJOs. SFSB replication across the cluster is handled by the container, as is persistence context injection and transaction demarcation. As I recall, the Seam documentation says that SFSB replication across the cluster is more efficient than that of Seam POJO components. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4077104#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...