The getInstance() method is used to refer to a Seam session bean component stub, which can then be used to remotely execute methods against your component. This method returns a singleton for the specified component, so calling it twice in a row with the same component name will return the same instance of the component.

To continue the previous example, if we have created a new customer and we want to save it, we pass it to the saveCustomer() method of our customerAction component:

Seam.Component.getInstance("customerAction").saveCustomer( customer);