Could the issue be because the bean I am binding the form to is neither a Stateful session bean or an entity bean? We are not using a database back end and do not need the complexity of an entity bean. The bean annotations are as follows: @Name("agent") | @Install(precedence=Install.DEPLOYMENT) | @Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION) This works fine when using anything other than s:decorate. So I guess s:decorate does something special expecting @Stateful or @Entity beans? I say this because all the examples in the seam-gen app that use s:decorate use those. Again, is the source code for Seam available? It's open source isn't it? Cheers, David View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4109677#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...