Hi Shane, I downloaded 1.3.0 and tried. That caused a whole new universe of problems. If I remove jboss-seam.jar from the ear and copy it to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib everything works well. The only problem was <s:link value="User Go Home" view="home.xhtml" rendered="#{s:hasRole('user')}" /> should be <s:link value="User Go Home" view="/home.xhtml" rendered="#{s:hasRole('user')}" /> This is clearly a class loading problem. Is the JBoss AS responsible for class loading, or the application? I would think it is the AS, in which case the problem lies with JBoss 4.2.0. I'll go and read up in the wiki about class loading. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4057235#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...