This approach will work, but you mention that you are using EJB3. Why dont you use dependency injection of EJBs? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3983176#3983176 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3983176