Why do you think raiseEvent is bad? That's probably what I would use. If the second set of initializers depend on contextual variables outjected from the first initializer, I would probably use @RaiseEvent instead of Events.instance.raiseEvent, because the second approach won't do outjection before raising the event, and the first approach will. (I think; haven't tested, but from looking at seam src, it should) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4078829#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...