Thanks for replying.. Well yes injection works in my application. I am accessing the entityManager from a stateful session bean and it worked perfectly. Below is my components.xml file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> true bpmshell/#{ejbName}/local java:/bpmshellEntityManagerFactory View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3984884#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...