You can extend the EntityHome class, put your variable name there and reference your newly created class in components.xml using something like | <component name="name" class="a.b.c.ExtendedEntityHome"> | <property name="someFlagVariable">someValue</property> | </component> | or you could even use the Namespace feature part of Seam. The documentation have more info on this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4051557#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...