Hi, Downloaded the 1.1.5 - Was able to run the JPA example without any issues. Thanks. For my app (WAR file) - I keep getting the exception below. The only way I get rid of it is to put the StartupServletContextListener line above the SeamListener line My web.xml / build.xml mirrors what u have in the example - Question is Questions # Why is the "start" of the application so sensitive to order of the listeners in Websphere - What could I be doing wrong # Mainly - Will this reordering affect Seam? Right now this is just a 2 page prototype - Here is the exception (part of the trace) [2/1/07 12:13:59:321 PST] 0000005e ServletWrappe E SRVE0100E: Did not realize init() exception thrown by servlet Faces Servlet: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Factories configured for this Application. This happens if the faces-initialization does not work at all - make sure that you properly include all configuration settings necessary for a basic faces application and that all the necessary libs are included. Also check the logging output of your web application and your container for any exceptions! If you did that and find nothing, the mistake might be due to the fact that you use some special web-containers which do not support registering context-listeners via TLD files and a context listener is not setup in your web.xml. A typical config looks like this; <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class> at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:90) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.init(FacesServlet.java:88) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:185) at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:316) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.initialize(ServletWrapper.java:1119) at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.initialize(ServletWrapper.java:149) at com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.extension.WebExtensionProcessor.createServletWrapper(WebExtensionProcessor.java:99) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.getServletWrapper(WebApp.java:741) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initializeTargetMappings(WebApp.java:421) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinish(WebApp.java:274) at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initialize(WebApp.java:271) at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.addWebApplication(WebGroup.java:88) at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.VirtualHost.addWebApplication(VirtualHost.java:157) at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.addWebApp(WebContainer.java:653) at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.addWebApplication(WebContainer.java:606) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:333) at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:549) at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1295) at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectStart(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1129) at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:567) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4009700#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...