Hi, being a newbie to Seam and JSF I just built my first Seam webapp running in Tomcat 5.5 (Seam 1.2.1 GA + Facelets). In order to see when exactly my components (all Pojos) get instantiated I put some debug output in the components' constructors. Now I noticed that Seam, every time it creates a component, apparently calls the constructor twice, first directly then via javassist. I guess this is normal (because of the proxies?) but just wanted to be sure before putting expensive operations in the constructors... Thanks for information! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4093171#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...