Hi,

I have a problem on migrating to 2.1.GA from 2.0.2SP1. I have changed entity converters in components.xml as documentation proposes (comented part at the end is as previous was working in 2.0):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components"
            xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core"
            xmlns:persistence="http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence"
            xmlns:drools="http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools"
            xmlns:bpm="http://jboss.com/products/seam/bpm"
            xmlns:theme="http://jboss.com/products/seam/theme"
            xmlns:security="http://jboss.com/products/seam/security"
            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xmlns:web="http://jboss.com/products/seam/web"
            xmlns:transaction="http://jboss.com/products/seam/transaction"
            xmlns:ui="http://jboss.com/products/seam/ui"
            xsi:schemaLocation=
                "http://jboss.com/products/seam/core http://jboss.com/products/seam/core-2.1.xsd 
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence-2.1.xsd 
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools-2.1.xsd
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/bpm http://jboss.com/products/seam/bpm-2.1.xsd
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/theme   http://jboss.com/products/seam/theme-2.1.xsd
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/security http://jboss.com/products/seam/security-2.1.xsd
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/components http://jboss.com/products/seam/components-2.1.xsd
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/web http://jboss.com/products/seam/web-2.1.xsd
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail-2.1.xsd
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/transaction http://jboss.com/products/seam/transaction-2.1.xsd
                 ">



   <core:init debug="false" jndi-pattern="userportal/#{ejbName}/local" />
   
   <core:manager concurrent-request-timeout="500" 
                 conversation-timeout="120000" 
                 conversation-id-parameter="cid"
                 parent-conversation-id-parameter="pid"/>
                 
   
   <persistence:managed-persistence-context name="beDatabase" auto-create="true" entity-manager-factory="#{beEmf}"/>
   <persistence:entity-manager-factory name="beEmf" persistence-unit-name="beDB" auto-create="true" startup="true"/>
                      
   
   <persistence:managed-persistence-context name="localDatabase" auto-create="true" entity-manager-factory="#{locEmf}" />
   <persistence:entity-manager-factory name="locEmf" persistence-unit-name="localDB" auto-create="true" startup="true"/>
   
   
   <ui:entity-converter name="beEntityConverter" scope="CONVERSATION" precedence="20" entity-loader="#{entityLoader1}"/>
   <ui:jpa-entity-loader name="entityLoader1" entity-manager="#{beDatabase}"/>

   <ui:entity-converter name="localEntityConverter" scope="CONVERSATION" precedence="20" entity-loader="#{entityLoader2}"/>
   <ui:jpa-entity-loader name="entityLoader2" entity-manager="#{localDatabase}"/>
   
   
   <!--
   <component name="beEntityConverter" scope="CONVERSATION" precedence="20"
               class="org.jboss.seam.ui.converter.EntityConverter">
        <property name="entityManager">#{beDatabase}</property>
   </component>
   
   <component name="localEntityConverter" scope="CONVERSATION" precedence="20"
               class="org.jboss.seam.ui.converter.EntityConverter">
        <property name="entityManager">#{localDatabase}</property>
   </component>
    -->
   

but have a problem getting entity manager than:

10:29:20,664 ERROR [Initializer] Error while trying to initialize the local directories of files: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: exception invoking: getEntityManager
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: exception invoking: getEntityManager
        at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.LifecycleInterceptorHandler.postConstruct(LifecycleInterceptorHandler.java:113)
        at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.invokePostConstruct(EJBContainer.java:616)
        at org.jboss.ejb3.AbstractPool.create(AbstractPool.java:131)
        at org.jboss.ejb3.ThreadlocalPool.get(ThreadlocalPool.java:61)
        at org.jboss.ejb3.stateless.StatelessInstanceInterceptor.invoke(StatelessInstanceInterceptor.java:54)
        ...
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: exception invoking: getEntityManager
        at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invokeAndWrap(Reflections.java:148)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.callComponentMethod(Component.java:2171)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.unwrap(Component.java:2197)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1964)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1910)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1904)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1899)
        at com.util.Configuration.<init>(Configuration.java:80)
        at com.util.Configuration.getInstance(Configuration.java:39)
        at app.init.UtilServiceBean.initialize(UtilServiceBean.java:74)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.LifecycleInvocationContextImpl.proceed(LifecycleInvocationContextImpl.java:159)
        at org.jboss.seam.intercept.EJBInvocationContext.proceed(EJBInvocationContext.java:44)
        at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:56)
        at org.jboss.seam.intercept.Interceptor.postConstruct(Interceptor.java:193)
        at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:74)
        at org.jboss.seam.intercept.Interceptor.postConstruct(Interceptor.java:193)
        at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:74)
        ... 184 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invoke(Reflections.java:22)
        at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invokeAndWrap(Reflections.java:138)
        ... 229 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/el/lang/ExtendedFunctionMapper
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.findClassLocally(RepositoryClassLoader.java:675)
        at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.findClass(RepositoryClassLoader.java:655)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.loadClassLocally(RepositoryClassLoader.java:193)
        at org.jboss.mx.loading.ClassLoadingTask$ThreadTask.run(ClassLoadingTask.java:131)
        at org.jboss.mx.loading.LoadMgr3.nextTask(LoadMgr3.java:399)
        at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.loadClassImpl(RepositoryClassLoader.java:520)
        at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.loadClass(RepositoryClassLoader.java:408)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.seam.core.Expressions.getExpressionFactory(Expressions.java:40)
        at org.jboss.seam.core.Expressions$1.createExpression(Expressions.java:107)
        at org.jboss.seam.core.Expressions$1.toUnifiedValueExpression(Expressions.java:91)
        at org.jboss.seam.core.Expressions$1.getValue(Expressions.java:112)
        at org.jboss.seam.persistence.ManagedPersistenceContext.getEntityManagerFactoryFromJndiOrValueBinding(ManagedPersistenceContext.java:220)
        at org.jboss.seam.persistence.ManagedPersistenceContext.initEntityManager(ManagedPersistenceContext.java:78)
        at org.jboss.seam.persistence.ManagedPersistenceContext.getEntityManager(ManagedPersistenceContext.java:107)
        ... 235 more
10:29:20,680 INFO  [Contexts] starting up: locEmf

Am I doing anything wrong?
tnx and brg,
K