Your return server class doesn't have a @Name annotation which means it is not a seam component. Try adding a name to it unless you are defining it in components.xml. How is it even getting to this code since without the name, the component cannot be injected. Beyond that, I would try checking each piece of the query operation to see which item is null (the entitymanager, or the query). Cheers, Andy View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4112965#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...