I have no idea what your use case is and no idea how to you solve your problem, but it does not sound like a unit test to me. If you want to create a unit test, extend your testclass from SeamTest which will boostrap an embedded container and the seam environment. Then do as I posted above and you have your pageflow running. With just Pageflow.instance() you don't start any pageflow. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4057998#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...