In case anyone has the same problem, I couldn't come up with a proper solution so have had to hack one in. A sort of if you can't beat em join em answer. I still don't know if the problem is happening because of a bug or feature. I had to wire Seam into the JSF app, so the web.xml had the following added to it. <listener-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener</listener-class> and the faces-config.xml file had the following added. <phase-listener>org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener</phase-listener> just like a regular Seam project. So far everything in the JSF app still works and hopefully will stay that way. Thank you for all the replies. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4039822#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...