Thanks for the hint on enabling debugging. Now it is getting stranger, because it is finding the components: | 21:38:36,965 DEBUG [Scanner] found: rbcworkflow/beans/TestAction.class | 21:38:36,967 DEBUG [ComponentScanner] found component class: rbcworkflow/beans/TestAction.class | So the ComponentScanner found the component class. But it never does anything further with it. There's no "initializing component" for those classes. Any idea what could be lacking or incorrect? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4067287#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...