Pete, It's a been a few weeks (~6 ;-)) but I ultimately reverted to session scope for most of our state in the simple application in which the issue arose. Thus, I don't have a solution for the problem I ran into here. I will be in my office mid-next week and can look at that specific application again - we're using suggestionbox quite a bit in it. On another note, I have solved the Seam-with-maven2-and-jboss-embedded-for-testing problem. I've been meaning to post something on a site of my own that provides detailed instructions for how to repeat the solution. Maybe I'll get that out today... Brad View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4115524#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...