Sorry, my question was a bit vague and misleading. What I really wanted to confirm is that if I use @PersistentContext then Seam will not intercept this and return a Seam managed persistent context (SMPC). I was led to think that way because I saw a seam interceptor (org.jboss.seam.ejb.SeamInterceptor) being added as an EJB3 interceptor. But, now that I have looked at the code for SessionBeanInterceptor, the purpose of this interceptor is to detect the creation of the session bean and treat it as a seam component if the session bean has the @name annotation. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4021715#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...