[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Can't get Seam managed persistance working in an app scoped

OK, this is not really a big deal, because it works when I change it to EJB managed (i.e. @PersistenceContext), but I'ld like to understand why it doesn't work. I have an application-scoped bean that should be initialized at startup: | @Stateful | @Name("anonUserFactory") | @Startup(depends="org.jboss.seam.core.ejb") | @Scope(ScopeType.APPLICATION) | public class AnonUserFactory implements AnonUserFactoryInterface { | | @Logger | protected Log log; | | private User anonUser; | | @In(create = true) | EntityManager theDatabase; | | @Create | public void createAnonUser() { | try { | anonUser = (User) theDatabase.createQuery("blah blah").getSingleResult(); | anonUser.populatePermissions(); | } | catch (NoResultException e) { | log.fatal("Could not load anonymous user", e); | throw e; | } | } | | @TransactionAttribute(NOT_SUPPORTED) | public User getAnonUser() { | return anonUser; | } | | @Remove | @Destroy | public void destroy() { | } | } | For some reason, theDatabase is null when I try to use it. This same injected EntityManager works in other (non-startup) classes, so the datasource and all that is set up correctly. I get no exception, except of course the NPE when trying to use the EntityManager. If I may throw in a related question. Seeing as this EntityManager is not needed after the @Create method, how can I close it. If I do, I get the exception stating that I cannot call close() on injected components. I've tried to get it via "Component.getInstance("em", true)" and all sorts of things, but it always returns null. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993268#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...