In the documentation on running examples on tomcat server, instead of "ant deploy.tomcat" you should read "ant tomcat.deploy". If someone out there at JBoss-seam could modify .... Hope this will help for people like me who discover seam for the first time. Also, see this post for a working configuration using embedded jboss on tomcat : [url] http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=115456 [/url] (jboss-seam CR1 had problem running the examples). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4095227#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...