Yes, if you think about it, there's no way injection could occur before the constructor. There's no object to inject into! In all my Seam managed components, the constructor does little or nothing beyond setting default values for some fields. You can use the @Create annotation (I believe it is) to run some method after construction and injection have occureed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125857#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...