envv-entry-value looks like a typo to me. Seam is not doing anything with that - it is purely the EJB3 container. If it isn't working right, you should check the EJB3 forums and/or open an EJB3 JIRA issue. Out of curiosity, what do you see as the advantages of trying to use this as opposed to using a configuration property in components.xml? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4000456#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...