I'm experiencing the same problem described in this thread. I haven't been able to get Seam to resolve the name of my backing beans when using POJOs and the @Name annotation (I've been using the 'todo' and 'hibernate' example projects as models adding facelets and RichFaces to my configuration). I've tried placing the empty 'seam.properties' file at the root of my war file. This didn't change anything for me. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4048466#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...