There is probably a wonderful explanation for this but it's escaping me. Whenever I call indentity.getPassword from anywhere but the Authenticator bean I get a null. I'm brand new to seam (in case you couldn't tell) and am just experimenting with the basics. I used seam-gen to create a basic application and added a single action. In that new action I tried both Identity.instance().getPassword() and identity.getPassword() (with @In for Indentity). Both of them return null. Is that normal or have I done something wrong? Actually since I never changed any of the configs after running seam-gen I probably should say "Is there something I should do?" Thanks in advance, Gary View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4059349#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...