This directory contains all jars needed to compile Seam and run the unit tests. The only jars required to run Seam in a full Java EE 5 environment are: jbpm-3.1.1.jar thirdparty-all.jar To use Seam with Hibernate3 in a J2EE 1.4 environment, the following extra jars are minimally required: Hibernate3: hibernate-all.jar MyFaces: myfaces-impl-1.1.4.jar myfaces-api-1.1.4.jar commons-digester-1.6.jar commons-codec-1.3.jar commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar commons-lang-2.1.jar commons-collections-3.1.jar commons-el-1.0.jar jstl-1.1.0.jar Or use your preferred JSF 1.1/1.2 implementation. Note that commons-lang and commons-collections are only needed for server-side JSF state saving in MyFaces. To use the JBoss Cache, the following additional jars are required: jgroups.jar jboss-aop-jdk50.jar jboss-cache-jdk50.jar To use Seam in with JBoss Embeddable EJB 3.0 or JBoss Microcontainer, the following extra jars are required: jboss-ejb3-all.jar hibernate-all.jar You will also need a JBoss Microcontainer configuration: JBoss Microcontainer with JTA/JCA: microcontainer/conf JBoss Embeddable EJB 3.0: embedded-ejb/conf