@Stateless Seam components have a different contract from JavaBean Seam components - to make a choice you need to understand the difference which is explained in the reference manual. I'm pretty sure that using @Stateless beans is going to improve the performance of your app significantly. You don't really post enough information to for people to help you with your performance issue. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091740#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...