No it does not work, partly because Seam caches all that metadata in the Component object at startup time. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972976#3972976 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3972976