I was just looking at this myself this morning. Instead of calling: SomeObjectHome myHome = new SomeObjectHome(); You should instead use: SomeObjectHome myHome = Component.getInstance("someObjectHome"); Where "someObjectHome" is the @Name given to the Home Object. If you don't do it this way then 'Seam can't do it's magic' and you'll get NullPointerExceptions on injected objects like @Logger. Cheers, Damian. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4039888#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...