anonymous wrote : | For me - the disconnect is the instantiate or create concept - since I am typically asking the container to provide a reference to a bean looked up via JNDI, I don't consider my application to be instantiating or creating session beans; I thought the container takes care of creation / instantiation automatically | I believe you may be mixing up Seam components (managed with @In) and EJB session beans (managed with @EJB), because Seam components can be (and often are) implemented as session beans. Thanks, Stephan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3999516#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...