You can't access injected beans in the constructor. Instead, use a method annotated with @Create to do this kind of initialization stuff. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4038829#4038829 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4038829