@Factory cannot take more than one argument. I asked a question just now about having multiple @Factory methods in a SFSB. I couldn't see anything in the docs that mention that, but I looked in the Seam examples and there weren't any classes there that had more than one Factory in them, so I don't know if it's a good idea or not. For what you are trying to do (have a FillAll method), why not do that in your @Begin method? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4011191#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...