I don't think anyone has tried it, but I don't know any reason you couldn't. Simply don't declare the hibernate components in components.xml. (but leave in the the transaction manager configuration in jboss-beans.xml) Give it a shot and let us know how it worked. Out of curiosity, what kind of application are you trying to create that would use seam without JPA? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993471#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...