Section 4.6 Logging of the SEAM reference manual states It doesn't matter if you declare the log variable static or not - it will work either way, except for entity bean components which require the log variable to be static.
The sentence needs to be extended to say that the @Name annotation must also be used for logging with Entity beans. If you omit the @Name, a NullPointerException is thrown when the first log statement executes. Note that @Name is NOT generated by SEAM-GEN or the Eclipse wizard to Generate Entities.
