Dan and Shane raised the issue of how to store data directly in a context. 299 includes that facility: @Current Manager manager; public void go(final String something) { // Store the String something in the session context Contextual<String> somethingContextual = new Contextual<String>() { public String create(CreationalContext<String> arg0) { System.out.println("Storing " + something + " in a context"); return something; } public void destroy(String arg0) { System.out.println("Removing " + something + " from a context"); } }; manager.getContext(ApplicationScoped.class).get(somethingContextual, new CreationalContext<String>() { public void push(String arg0) { // No-op, we don't need to deal with partially circularities here } }); } But often, if you are controlling the data object, it's better to use a bean to manage the data. -- Pete Muir http://www.seamframework.org http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete