My understanding is that the only reason Seam prefers client-side state saving is due to a bug in MyFaces. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3967005#3967005 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3967005