And I'll do the same for you if I find a solution. I created the hellowworld project from scratch using seam-gen and the number of configuration files that get generated is a little staggering...it deploys and works fine but telling which parts of that "from scratch" project are necessary is not clear. Oh, it also uses a Seam class called Identity for it's user authentication which in turn uses the @Startup annotation. The @Startup annoation claims that for an application or session scoped bean it will create the bean when the application or session are created. I tried using the @Startup annoation on my User object from the project in my first post but it did *not* fix the problem. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4048397#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...