Believed this was a bug in Seam-1.2.1GA. It is fixed in Seam-CVS. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4049702#4049702 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4049702