anonymous wrote : Just to see how the overriding would work, afer you override the class how would you get Seam to use it everytime I refer to "identity" as opposed to the current Identity You don't have to do anything! Your application components always have a higher priority than built-in components. See the @Install annotation. Built-in components are all declared @Install(priority=BUILT_IN). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4010629#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...