I'd like to run a couple of queries in the startup of the application. The persistence context can be used only in session beans and message driven beans. Any ideas how to invoke the persistence context or is there any alternative approach to get hold of the persistence mechanism upon startup? Ideally I would like to have something like: @Scope(ScopeType.APPLICATION) @Startup public class QueryStartup extends Jbpm { @PersistenceContext EntityManager em; @Create public void startup() { Query q = "some query in here" em.createQuery(q).getResultList(); } } Any suggestions? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116969#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...