I am very new to jboss Seam and hence a simple query. I want to call up a seam component from inside a servlet filter as below: AuthorizerActionLocal authLocal = (AuthorizerActionLocal)Seam.componentForName("packageCreationAction") .getInstance( AuthorizerActionImpl.class); UserVO userVO = authLocal.login(userName); I get an error saying: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active at org.jboss.seam.Component.forName(Component.java:1603) What is going wrong? Is it possible to call a seam component from inside a servlet filter as above? If not then is there any other way Regards, Rishi