Is this similar to the problem to that I posted yesterday? http://jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=108741 (the last post being the relevant one) I think this is the situation when you have a select list of POJO objects that you want to assign to a target seam component. If this isn't the same case, feel free to ignore the rest of this message! Should you be able to assign a POJO directly to a seam component ? It seems like it could be done with the cglib proxy implementation but not the javassist version (Seam 1.2.1 onwards). I concluded that we would need to update the el assignment to use Context.set(string,object) to perform the assignment safely. I found a workaround but it makes my code a bit less elegant. I'd appreciate advice on the correct strategy. Cheers J View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046448#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...