1) Its classlevel only - we have an ancient open issue for this, but with Web Beans on the way, I don't think this will see light before then. Your approach is the best workaround I know of. 2) You should be able inject other components using Component.getInstance/Contexts lookup. What is the lifecycle of this request? JSF? Post your code. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129937#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...