Absolutely. Check out the Seam tutorials and documentation. Also try the seam-gen utility. It will create an entire skeleton application for you including a class you can populate with whatever you want to do in order to log in the user (e.g. connect to the database in your example). I forget if the class seam-gen creates is Authentication.java or Authorization.java (I always get the two mixed up), but its pretty obvious in the generated application, so you'll see it. Greg View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4048524#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...