Now session beans can be backing beans in Seam application, and usually backing beans have getters/setters. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4061638#4061638 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4061638