Thanks for your reply If I understand this correctly. The reason for my event beeing called when updating using the web interface is that my seam components, including the entity, is invoked via the context variable, whereas when updating from a message-driven-bean which listen to a queue, and not bound to a seam context, it fails? My idea was to have an event triggered whenver the Arrival was updated, to perform some other operations not relevant to the update it self (e.g. check differens between two arrival times). I kind'a like the event, but not sure on how and where I should set up the context manually, as suggested by petemuir. Help appriciated :) Regards Jarle View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4036649#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...