"tomstrummer" wrote : I understand that I can't keep state in my SLSB, but I thought the point was that you could biject stateful values into your SLSBs. See http://books.google.com/books?id=h1madTvupB8C&pg=PA162&vq=listing... Yes, correct. You explicitly set the value to false in your bean (boolean showPortfolioForm = false;) - so your point about it not being explicitly set is wrong. What do you expect Seam to do? Use telepathy to read what you intended rather than what you programmed? My suggestion - use a Boolean rather than a boolean, and only set it when you explicitly need to. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129928#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...