Sounds like you should just have the EJB container inject it like so. | @PersistenceContext(unitName="your_persistence_unit") | private EntityManager em; | The new EJB3 spec allows for container injection. I think they call it Inside Out Container (IOC) or something like that. Anyway, it's build on annotation from the 1.5 JDK. You can do quite a lot of this type of inject without seam. Seam builds on this concept and also introduces Outjection. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3967473#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...