Thanks, that looks like a workable solution. Another problem I encounter is this: I'm passing an object to a delete action method in the PAGE scoped component. I'm merging this incoming object explicitly with the seam managed entity manager, and then call en.remove() on this object. However, I still get java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Removing a detached instance org.blog.domainclasses.BlogEntry#1 on this call... shouldn't the merge call guarantee that the object is managed by this em again? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4040532#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...