Why are you using managed beans with Seam? I suggest you start from the JPA example for WAS. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4113991#4113991 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4113991