"pete.muir(a)jboss.org" wrote : 22 times over what period? Where is it defined it should be called once? over the period of one HTTP-request. I have no idea what might be the purpose of injecting a static value (like a request parameter) more than once into the component. Maybe there is something wrong with my application-design, but there is really nothing special involved. It's based on Seam 2.0 and Icefaces 1.6.1. I mention this because I have also observed other redundant method calls (but did not yet analyze it systematically). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4109792#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...