Seam creates and maintains a number of Contexts with different scopes that application writers can use for various storage purposes for their application. The Contexts have different lifespans, some existing for only the request in progress (EventContext) and some lasting for an arbitrary length of time (eg. ConversationContext). The ICEfaces framework doesn't allow these Contexts to go away properly anymore; the PageContext has been fixed but the event context is still outstanding. Changes made to restore what used to work pre-1.6 now break the Seam-icefaces example application, and some work needs to be done to understand exactly what it is that's broken, and fix it.

This causes no known issues at present, but it needs to be fixed while we know it's a problem, as it is difficult and time consuming to find problems of this nature, as the ramifications are always obscure.