Tony, you are right. You need to put the @Startup annotation at the class level. This will create the object at the time the app is loaded/deployed, without user interaction. If when the object is created, at that time, you ALSO want to run the init method, you need to annotate that method with @Create. Does that make sense? Devon View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044749#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...