Quasi-empty rules file works for me too, but that is useful only in one of our applications. If I need rules it still does not work. It works in a test application I wrote. But it doesn't work in this larger application we're moving over from Seam 1.2.1. Is it some tricky configuration issue that apparently is not explaining itself well in the stack trace? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4108243#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...