Here is a summary of the problems I had while trying to run seam-booking (from seam CR3) in websphere v8 beta (march refresh) I was not able to start the applications I will make another tentative when the next release os Seam 3 will be out Some of the JIRA are already resolved. Denis PS: For those who would like to try to do the same thing, edit file <app_install_dir>/properties/amm.filter.properties in WAS and remove references to packag org.jboss.seam in this file before deploying the app. --------------------------------- Class org.jboss.seam.transaction.TransactionManagerSynchronizations contains an annotation @Remove but this class in not a SFSB.. ---> SEAMPERSIST-44 Exception javax.enterprise.inject.UnproxyableResolutionException: WebBeans with api type with normal scope must be proxiable to inject. javax.el.ExpressionFactory has final methods! CDI doesn't allow that. ---> SOLDER-99 File WEB-INF/seam-beans.xml has problems: java.lang.Exception: Could not resolve node specializes in namespace urn:java:seam:core at file:/data/ws/ws_seam3/Test2Web/WebContent/WEB-INF/seam-beans.xml:28 at org.jboss.seam.config.xml.bootstrap.XmlConfigExtension.beforeBeanDiscovery(XmlConfigExtension.java:135) ---> SEAMXML-40 Seam-transaction (TransactionExtension) depends on slf4j instead of jboss-logging as the other modules ---> SEAMPERSIST-42 Version mismatch between sl4j jars: - slf4j-api.jar is at version 1.6.1 - slf4j-log4j12.jar is at version 1.5.10 ---> SEAM-55 Extension that have their constructor in scope "package" instead of "public" that makes the initialization to fail in WAS : - org.jboss.seam.servlet.ServletExtension - org.jboss.seam.servlet.logging.TypedMessageBundleAndLoggerExtension - org.jboss.seam.solder.logging.TypedMessageLoggerExtension - org.jboss.seam.solder.messages.TypedMessageBundleExtension - org.jboss.seam.solder.serviceHandler.ServiceHandlerExtension ---> SOLDER-90 created by Dan ---> SEAMSERVLET-31 created by Dan File META-INF/beans.xml in seam-conversation-spi.jar does not conform to beans.xml file schema ---> no JIRA created Missing jars: - ocpsoft-pretty-time.jar - prettyfaces-jsf2.jar - commons-beanutils.jar - commons-digester ---> SEAM-56