I forgot to mention that I use Seam 2 CR2, Hibernate persistence with Seam-managed transactions. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4094515#4094515 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4094515