Well you need to integrate them into Seam. Seam uses EJB3 interceptors to intercept all requests to MDB (and SLSB, SFSB) and wrap them in Seam's contexts etc. If you are just calling the object directly (which I think you are) you'll need to set up the contexts yourself. You can look at the ContextHttpServletRequest for an example of how to do this for requests coming in from a servlet. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4110484#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...