Seam 1.1.0.GA
Icefaces 1.5.1
JBoss-AS 4.0.5.GA
MySQL 5.0.27

I created a basic Seam application following the instructions in the Seam documentation. I have 2 simple tables in a MySQL database for testing. I ran the following commands to create the basic application:

seam setup
seam new-project
seam generate-entities

After importing into Eclipse, deploying and starting the AS, the generated application works as expected. I can see the list of existing entities, create new ones and edit existing ones.

Now, I want to integrate with Icefaces. So, I followed the documentation from the Icefaces site:

http://support.icesoft.com/jive/servlet/KbServlet/download/623-102-847/SeamKBArticle.txt

When I redeploy, the list and creating a new entity works but selecting an existing item for update is not working. When I choose the Select link, it brings me to a page where all the fields are either 0 or empty, acting as if the id for the entity object does not exist.

Here's my web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<web-app version="2.5"
 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

 <context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>
 <param-value>/WEB-INF/navigation.xml</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <listener>
 <listener-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener</listener-class>
 </listener>

 <listener>
 <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class>
 </listener>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
 <param-value>client</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
 <param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>com.icesoft.faces.actionURLSuffix</param-name>
 <param-value>.seam</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>com.icesoft.faces.synchronousUpdate</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>com.icesoft.faces.doJSFStateManagement</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <filter>
 <filter-name>Seam Exception Filter</filter-name>
 <filter-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamExceptionFilter</filter-class>
 </filter>

 <filter-mapping>
 <filter-name>Seam Exception Filter</filter-name>
 <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
 </filter-mapping>

 <servlet>
 <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
 <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

 <!-- ICEFACES -->
 <servlet>
 <servlet-name>Blocking Servlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>com.icesoft.faces.webapp.xmlhttp.BlockingServlet</servlet-class>
 <load-on-startup> 1 </load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

 <servlet>
 <servlet-name>Persistent Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.icesoft.faces.webapp.xmlhttp.PersistentFacesServlet</servlet-class>
 <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Persistent Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>/xmlhttp/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Persistent Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>/xmlhttp/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Persistent Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>*.iface</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

<!-- Blocking Servlet Mapping -->
 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Blocking Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>/block/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Persistent Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>*.seam</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

faces-config.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC
 "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces Config 1.1//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd">

<faces-config>
 <application>
 <message-bundle>messages</message-bundle>
 <view-handler>com.icesoft.faces.facelets.D2DSeamFaceletViewHandler</view-handler>
 </application>

 <managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>highlight</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>com.icesoft.faces.context.effects.Highlight</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>

 <managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>timeZoneBean</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>com.test.par.TimeZoneBean</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>

 <!-- Seam transaction management -->
 <lifecycle>
 <phase-listener>org.jboss.seam.jsf.TransactionalSeamPhaseListener</phase-listener>
 </lifecycle>

 <!-- No Seam transaction management -->
 <!--
 <lifecycle>
 <phase-listener>org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener</phase-listener>
 </lifecycle>
 -->
</faces-config>

I also updated the build.xml to include the icefaces jars and replacing the facelets jar with the icefaces one:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<project name="myproject" default="deploy" basedir=".">

 <!-- Give user a chance to override without editing this file or typing -D -->
 <property file="${basedir}/build.properties" />

 <!-- set global properties for this build -->
 <property name="project.name" value="myproject"/>
 <property name="dist.dir" value="dist" />
 <property name="src.java.dir" value="src" />
 <property name="lib.dir" value="lib" />
 <property name="ear.dir" value="exploded-archives/${project.name}.ear" />
 <property name="jar.dir" value="exploded-archives/${project.name}.jar" />
 <property name="war.dir" value="exploded-archives/${project.name}.war" />
 <property name="test.dir" value="build/test" />
 <property name="embedded-ejb3.dir" value="${basedir}/embedded-ejb/conf" />
 <property name="deploy.dir" value="${jboss.home}/server/default/deploy" />
 <property name="ear.deploy.dir" value="${deploy.dir}/${project.name}.ear" />
 <property name="jar.deploy.dir" value="${ear.deploy.dir}/${project.name}.jar" />
 <property name="war.deploy.dir" value="${ear.deploy.dir}/${project.name}.war" />
 <property name="testng.jar" value="${basedir}/lib/testng-4.5.1-jdk15.jar" />
 <property name="javac.debug" value="true" />
 <property name="javac.deprecation" value="false" />

 <fileset id="lib" dir="${lib.dir}">
 <include name="*.jar" />
 </fileset>

 <path id="build.classpath">
 <fileset refid="lib" />
 </path>

 <target name="init" description="Initialize the build">
 <mkdir dir="${jar.dir}" />
 <mkdir dir="${ear.dir}" />
 <mkdir dir="${war.dir}" />
 <mkdir dir="${dist.dir}" />
 </target>

 <target name="compile" depends="init"
 description="Compile the Java source code"
 unless="eclipse.running">
 <javac classpathref="build.classpath"
 destdir="${jar.dir}"
 debug="${javac.debug}"
 deprecation="${javac.deprecation}"
 nowarn="on">
 <src path="${src.java.dir}" />
 </javac>
 </target>

 <target name="jar" depends="compile"
 description="Build the distribution .jar file">
 <copy todir="${jar.dir}">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources">
 <include name="seam.properties" />
 <include name="import.sql" />
 </fileset>
 </copy>
 <copy todir="${jar.dir}/META-INF">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources/META-INF">
 <include name="ejb-jar.xml" />
 <include name="persistence.xml" />
 </fileset>
 </copy>
 </target>

 <target name="war" depends="compile"
 description="Build the distribution .war file">
 <copy todir="${war.dir}">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/view" />
 </copy>
 <copy todir="${war.dir}/WEB-INF">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources/WEB-INF">
 <include name="*.*"/>
 <include name="classes/**/*.*"/>
 <exclude name="classes/**/*.class"/>
 </fileset>
 <filterset>
 <filter token="jndiPattern" value="${project.name}/#{ejbName}/local" />
 <filter token="embeddedEjb" value="false" />
 </filterset>
 </copy>
 <copy todir="${war.dir}/WEB-INF">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources/WEB-INF">
 <include name="lib/*.*"/>
 <include name="classes/**/*.class"/>
 </fileset>
 </copy>
 <copy todir="${war.dir}/WEB-INF/lib">
 <fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
 <include name="icefaces.jar" />
 <include name="icefaces-comps.jar" />
 <include name="icefaces-facelets.jar" />
 <include name="el-api.jar" />
 <include name="el-ri.jar" />
 <include name="jboss-seam-debug.jar" />
 <include name="jboss-seam-ui.jar" />
 </fileset>
 </copy>
 <copy todir="${war.dir}/WEB-INF/classes">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources">
 <include name="messages*.properties"/>
 </fileset>
 </copy>
 </target>

 <target name="ear" description="Build the EAR">
 <copy todir="${ear.dir}">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources">
 <include name="*jpdl.xml" />
 <include name="hibernate.cfg.xml" />
 <include name="jbpm.cfg.xml" />
 </fileset>
 <fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
 <include name="jboss-seam.jar" />
 <include name="jbpm*.jar" />
 <include name="el-*.jar" />
 </fileset>
 </copy>
 <copy todir="${ear.dir}/META-INF">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources/META-INF">
 <include name="application.xml" />
 <include name="jboss-app.xml" />
 </fileset>
 </copy>
 </target>

 <target name="archive" depends="jar,war,ear"
 description="Package the archives">
 <jar jarfile="${dist.dir}/${project.name}.jar" basedir="${jar.dir}"/>
 <jar jarfile="${dist.dir}/${project.name}.war" basedir="${war.dir}"/>
 <jar jarfile="${dist.dir}/${project.name}.ear">
 <fileset dir="${ear.dir}"/>
 <fileset dir="${dist.dir}">
 <include name="${project.name}.jar"/>
 <include name="${project.name}.war"/>
 </fileset>
 </jar>
 </target>

 <target name="datasource">
 <fail unless="jboss.home">jboss.home not set</fail>
 <copy todir="${deploy.dir}">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources">
 <include name="${project.name}-ds.xml" />
 </fileset>
 </copy>
 </target>

 <target name="explode" depends="jar,war,ear,datasource"
 description="Deploy the exploded archive">
 <fail unless="jboss.home">jboss.home not set</fail>

 <mkdir dir="${jar.deploy.dir}"/>
 <mkdir dir="${war.deploy.dir}"/>

 <copy todir="${jar.deploy.dir}">
 <fileset dir="${jar.dir}"/>
 </copy>
 <copy todir="${war.deploy.dir}">
 <fileset dir="${war.dir}"/>
 </copy>
 <copy todir="${ear.deploy.dir}">
 <fileset dir="${ear.dir}"/>
 </copy>
 </target>

 <target name="unexplode" description="Undeploy the exploded archive">
 <delete failonerror="no">
 <fileset dir="${ear.deploy.dir}">
 <exclude name="**/*.jar"/>
 </fileset>
 </delete>
 <delete file="${deploy.dir}/${project.name}-ds.xml" failonerror="no"/>
 <delete dir="${ear.deploy.dir}" failonerror="no"/>
 </target>

 <target name="restart" depends="explode" description="Restart the exploded archive">
 <touch file="${ear.deploy.dir}/META-INF/application.xml"/>
 </target>

 <target name="deploy" depends="archive,datasource" description="Deploy to JBoss AS">
 <fail unless="jboss.home">jboss.home not set</fail>
 <copy todir="${deploy.dir}" file="${dist.dir}/${project.name}.ear" />
 </target>

 <target name="undeploy" description="Undeploy the example from JBoss">
 <delete file="${deploy.dir}/${project.name}.ear" />
 <delete file="${deploy.dir}/${project.name}-ds.xml" />
 </target>

 <target name="clean" description="Cleans up the build directory">
 <delete dir="${dist.dir}" />
 <delete dir="${test.dir}" />
 <delete dir="${ear.dir}" />
 <delete dir="${war.dir}" />
 <delete>
 <fileset dir="${jar.dir}">
 <exclude name="**/*.class" if="eclipse.running"/>
 </fileset>
 </delete>
 </target>

 <target name="test" depends="jar,war,ear" description="Run the tests">

 <taskdef resource="testngtasks" classpath="${testng.jar}" />
 <copy todir="${test.dir}">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources" />
 <fileset dir="${jar.dir}" />
 </copy>

 <copy todir="${test.dir}/WEB-INF">
 <fileset dir="${war.dir}/WEB-INF">
 <exclude name="**/*.jar" />
 </fileset>
 </copy>

 <copy todir="${test.dir}" flatten="true">
 <fileset dir="${src.java.dir}">
 <include name="**/*Test.xml" />
 </fileset>
 </copy>

 <testng outputdir="${basedir}/testng-report">
 <classpath path="${test.dir}" />
 <classpath path="${embedded-ejb3.dir}" />
 <classpath refid="build.classpath" />
 <xmlfileset dir="${test.dir}" includes="*Test.xml" />
 </testng>

 </target>

</project>

Any ideas?