I forgot to mention also that if you look at the top of the stack trace, all the fun starts with the class org.hibernate.search.jpa.impl.FullTextEntityManagerImpl. If that is the class of object that is supposed to be injected with | @In | private FullTextEntityManager entityManager | then it would seem that I obtained the FullTextEntityManager. I suppose the issue is if in fact I got the right FullTextEntityManager implementation by doing it the current way. Or if "my" way somehow contradicts the expectation of Gavin's code in FullTextHibernateSessionProxy. Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121582#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...