Hello Peter, thank you for your response. Unfortunately, Seam component serviceEndPointMgmt does not exist in the parent conversation prior to invoking the editor (which in turn causes the exception). I can verify the absence of this object with the seam debugger. It is supposed to be created only when the editor is launched. Thus, I don't quite understand the log message about finding it in the conversation; I assumed that this is just a side-effect of using @In(create=true). I will stick some traces in the ctor and @Create method and see if I can find anything. So, the upshot is, I don't quite understand how I can periodically touch it. Normally, this would be easy to do, as my page has an ajax poll every 4s... Could I avoid the problem by declaring the injected object transient? I have never tried this on a seam component. Thanks PdP View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4070611#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...