Is the documentation completely wrong then? In section 7.2.2 Seam.Component, the example shows an entity bean that implements serializable with @Name('customer') which is later called through: var customer = Seam.Component.newInstance("customer"); customer.setFirstName("John"); // Or you can set the fields directly customer.lastName = "Smith"; View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3971913#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...