Sorry for the late responce - just got back from the holiday break. I have both beans annotated with @Name however the pojo is not. Looking over the initial post it looks a little cryptic so I'll try to clarify it a little In Jar A: Pojo containing common code Bean 1 - Stateless Bean using the @Name annotation In Jar B: Bean 2 extends Pojo - its stateful and named, it contains an instance var (Bean 1) which is injected using the @In annotation but the refrence is null at runtime. Initially everything was in one jar and Bean 2 was stand alone and it worked fine but now I'd like to seperate out some of the common stuff so I can reuse it in another project. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116332#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...