I have some questions about components.xml, too. In terms of managed beans and faces-config.xml, I would like to do something similar in components.xml in terms of reusing Seam components. I understand that Seam offers annotations to do this: @Role and @Roles. However, I'd like to set different properties for each role. Do I do this in the components.xml file? What if I wanted to initialize properties with Lists and Maps? TIA. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966366#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...