You will have to post some of your code at least. It also sounds like you are confused about the interaction of Seam and Hibernate. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992077#3992077 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3992077