That's what I thought ... I expected that Seam create instance when needed (such as a lightweight container like Spring). So it does not ? I tried to add @Startup to ServiceEmploye bean, but I had errors because the component had to be APPLICATION or SESSION scoped. About the @In(required=false), does it mean that Seam will instantiate the component if it doesn't exist ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4067900#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...