That page looks horrendously out of date for Seam 1.2. Best to follow chapter 2 of the ref doc and use seam-gen. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044214#4044214 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4044214