Thanks for response Pete. One problem I have run up against is the annotation @Name("org.jboss.seam.security.identity") is not unique - trying to use this in the derived class as per your code snippet throws "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Two components with the same name and precedence: org.jboss.seam.security.identity", which is what one would expect. How have you overcome this (short of changing the parent Identity annotation in the source)? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4017555#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...