I ended up using seam remoting. The only drawback (?) is that you have to deal with javascript. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3971666#3971666 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3971666