There is no right way to do this in Seam. Don't do it. Seam bijection happens at invocation time. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4054930#4054930 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4054930