Has anyone got any ideas for this? Surely it's not right for Seam to throw an NPE while testing an @Asynchronous action? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4028266#4028266 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4028266