hmm, I had transferred a couple of DAOs from another project which had been using commons logging. After replacing all my commons logging imports with seam.log.Log, all hell is breaking loose ... e.g. ========================================== import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Logger; import org.jboss.seam.log.Log; @Name("applicationCache") @Scope(APPLICATION) public class SwcmApplicationCache implements Serializable { @Logger private Log log; CategoryDAO categoryDao = new CategoryDAO(); public String refreshCategories() { String outcome = ActionOutcomes.SUCCESS; try { categories.clear(); categories.addAll(categoryDao.getAllCategories()); staleCategory = false; } catch (ServerException e) { e.printStackTrace(); outcome = ActionOutcomes.FAILURE; } log.info("updating application cache categories outcome: "+outcome); return outcome; } ... } ============================================ @Name("categoryDao") public class CategoryDAO extends AbstractDAO { @Logger private Log log; public ArrayList getAllCategories() throws ServerException { ... System.out.println("Logger is: "+log); log.info("#0 categories returned ...", categories.size()); return categories; } } bombs on Line 55 - the log.info() in the CategoryDAO ... (categories is NOT null) ... 14:39:56,171 INFO [STDOUT] Logger is: null Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.jostens.swcm.sql.CategoryDAO.getAllCategories(CategoryDAO.java:55) at com.jostens.swcm.application.SwcmApplicationCache.refreshCategories(SwcmApplicationCache.java:68) Unless someone can tell me what I am doing wrong, I may have to replace all my logging with System.out.print()'s ... I am using JBOSS Developer Studio and set up my project using its ejb wizard. The SEAM Logger works fine in some other classes ... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125667#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...