I converted the JavaBean to a stateful session bean, and set up the interface, and it still crashes it. I'm completely baffled. I can't see the difference between it and my other stateful session beans which do work. How has Seam decided that the message property of this thing doesn't exist? Seam seems to do random things sometimes. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966307#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...