You'll probably chase your tail for a while here. If you don't want to put all the jars into the deploy you'll probably need to deactivate some of the seam built in components. For example the one you are having trouble with now is the remoting component which you can deactivate like this | <component class="org.jboss.seam.remoting.messaging.SubscriptionRegistry" installed="false"/> | inside your components.xml file. A lot of the components are installed by default but if they have functionality you don't need you can just mark this as not installed. Obviously if you do that you will lose a piece of the Seam functionality. Look at the stack trace when you get a NoClassDefFoundError to see which component is causing the problem and then decide if you need it or not. Cheers. Mike. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3994290#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...