I have retried the example, with the now new code in the cvs. (I asume that this code base is identical with the release of seam 1.1.6) The problem has not gone away. 11:27:38,453 INFO [STDOUT] 11:27:38,453 ERROR [[/seam-space]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: You must specify org.jboss.seam.core.init.jndiPattern or use @JndiName: profile at org.jboss.seam.Component.getJndiName(Component.java:346) at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:222) at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:207) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012954#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...