I have just completed a five part tutorial that shows you one possible way of handling images in Seam. The tutorial consists of five parts: Part One: Defining the database model and entities envolved: http://linuxbeans.blogspot.com/2007/10/image-handling-in-seam-apps-part-i... Part Two: Uploading images using s:fileUpload and persisting them in the database: http://linuxbeans.blogspot.com/2007/10/image-handling-in-seam-apps-part-i... Part Three: Using a seam component to scale uploaded images and to generate thumbnails: http://linuxbeans.blogspot.com/2007/10/image-handling-in-seam-apps-part-i... Part Four: Using a servlet with the help of seam context filter to view and cache images on the client: http://linuxbeans.blogspot.com/2007/10/image-handling-in-seam-apps-part-i... Part Five: Restricting access to pages based on Seam simplfied security mode: http://linuxbeans.blogspot.com/2007/10/image-handling-in-seam-apps-part-v... Feedback, comments and suggestions are much appreciated. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4095927#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...