THANK YOU! As with everything else in JBoss world, the problem usually comes down to one line of XML somewhere. Overall, my biggest problem with Java is the error messages are not helpful. Seam could have put a message in the exception saying, "check the JNDI pattern in components.xml" or something like that. Now that I see how that pattern is being used, it's obvious what needs to be there. Again, thank you. Now I have Seam linked in to a simple web form, and I can probably solve things from here. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3965129#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...