You might be able to use an observer on a seam contextual event. Unfortunately I don't see a "seam fully initialized event". Maybe postCreate, or if your app requires authentication, preAuthenticate. I'm just looking at the docs, there may be additional events that have been added. It shouldn't be hard to add that "fully initialized event" so other components can kick off startup tasks without worrying about what resources are available and what aren't. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4039934#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...