I think something is wrong with it, if it was being read it say that it's reading seam.properties: 09:28:59,415 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/seam-selectitems, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp43353jboss-seam-selectitems.ear-contents/jboss-seam-selectitems-exp.war/ | 09:28:59,521 INFO [ServletContextListener] Welcome to Seam 1.0.1.GA | 09:28:59,521 INFO [Initialization] reading components.xml | 09:28:59,545 INFO [Initialization] reading properties from: /seam.properties | 09:28:59,545 INFO [Initialization] reading properties from: /jndi.properties | 09:28:59,546 INFO [Initialization] initializing Seam | ... | 09:29:00,496 INFO [Scanner] scanning: /home/pmuir/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp43353jboss-seam-selectitems.ear-contents/jboss-seam-selectitems.jar | 09:29:00,506 INFO [Component] Component: clientType, scope: CONVERSATION, type: ENTITY_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.example.selectitems.ClientType | 09:29:00,507 INFO [Component] Component: branch, scope: CONVERSATION, type: ENTITY_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.example.selectitems.Branch | 09:29:00,508 INFO [Component] Component: mailerExample, scope: EVENT, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.example.mailer.MailerExample | 09:29:00,518 INFO [Component] Component: client, scope: CONVERSATION, type: ENTITY_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.example.selectitems.Client | 09:29:00,523 INFO [Component] Component: clientAction, scope: CONVERSATION, type: STATEFUL_SESSION_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.example.selectitems.ClientActionBean, JNDI: jboss-seam-selectitems/ClientActionBean/local | 09:29:00,541 INFO [Initialization] done initializing Seam View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963981#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...