Ask on the EJB3 forum, nothing to do with Seam (or use Seam's support for asynchronous methods). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091285#4091285 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4091285