Darran Lofthouse [https://community.jboss.org/people/dlofthouse] created the discussion "Re: How does a @EJB dependency injection work on a Stateless Bean? Will that injected class behave like an instance variable in that stateless session bean?" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/792557#792557 -------------------------------------------------------------- You never assign a new value to mRequestCount so it will always return 0+1. You are probably looking for ++mRequestCount. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/792557#792557] Start a new discussion in EJB3 at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]