Yeah, I just tried it then. I didn't try it before because the service is initialized when it's deployed. It didn't help, I am still getting the same error.. 10:39:34,308 ERROR [ExceptionFilter] uncaught exception javax.servlet.ServletException: In attribute requires non-null value: authenticator.gajService Granted EJB3 and Seam are not the same thing, but because Seam operates within the EJB container, surely there is a way of operating with an EJB3 service? I really don't want to have to do a JNDI lookup :( That would suck. Hope someone can help, David View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4086988#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...