You need to instantiate the bean using seam (i.e. @In(create=true), or some sort of auto creation), and not just via new Foo() View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4033056#4033056 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4033056