Right, this should be mentioned in the Seam docs. Perhaps we should even make Seam warn about it... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962917#3962917 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3962917