You said the bean is stateless up the thread. So that initialised value may well be lost (I think, I'm not 100% up at what stage in the lifecycle stateless beans are created/destroyed). If the value is null it won't be outjected. So, 1) Use the debugger (attached I think to the bijection interceptor) 2) Well if it is not null, you will see the Seam variable resolver find the context variable on the log. Or if you set required=true then Seam throw an exception if the value is null View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3957432#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...