So, Tomahawk works with Seam conversations (try using an up-to-date version i.e. 1.1.3, also n.b. Tomahawk 1.1.0 would have to have been Myfaces 1.1.0 as old versions had to have exactly the same version no, perhaps thats where you were going wrong?). It's just that Tomahawk is written in a strange way in places which means that some of the components don't work. You would be far better off using a Gavin-recommended component set (e.g. Trinidad or Icefaces), not least because you'll get more help here. @Stateful Seam components are SESSION scoped by default. You shouldn't just remove the EXTENDED parameter, you should use an SMPC - http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.1CR2/reference/en/html/configuration.html#d0... You would definitely be better off changing your component set to work with Seam, not the other way around. I think it is worth pointing out that you could of course do PHP style DB access in Java using plain JDBC - but that would obviously mean no ORM etc. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992195#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...