PersistenceContext is to be used in objects that are Session Beans. EntityManager is to be injected into JavaBeans that need security. Do you have something ike --> <component name="entityManager" auto-create="true" class="org.jboss.seam.core.ManagedPersistenceContext"> java:/ticketingSystemEntityManagerFactory Defined in your components.xml View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026930#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...