I'd be very interested in this too. I had the same issue but took the easy option and made the failing injection required=false. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4076678#4076678 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4076678