1. Web Services maybe a good way to do this, you dont have to use Seam for that, but just generally have an endpoint that can receive your WS calls and act on it. Why do you have to use Seam for this? 2. Use JMX. If you have an JMX enabled bean, you could use the twiddle script (look up in jboss-4.0.x/bin/twiddle.sh) to invoke an mbean (get/set attribute, call methods etc) but that would be one more technology to learn :( View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970504#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...