I find myself constantly trying to maintain a mental mapping of sorts when it comes to Seam vocabulary. For example, the terms Context and Scope essentially are the same 'thing' in the documentation. In fact, the (terse) javadocs for Scope say: anonymous wrote : Specifies the scope (context) of a seam component. Instead of using two terms to say what you mean, why not use something like TargetContext as the name of the annotation class and ContextType for the enumeration of Context types? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3965496#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...