Thanks Gavin but I think that might require a slightly better understanding that I have. Taking the broader problem, running repeated actions from antoher thread and still having access to the seam beans . Can anyone suggest something please? I have tried Component.getInstance("testBean") for example but I get java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active | at org.jboss.seam.Component.forName(Component.java:1534) | at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1584) | at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1567) | at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1561) | at halvor.schedulers.db.PendingOrderQuartzTarget.execute(PendingOrderQuartzTarget.java:11) | at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:203) | at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520) | I am assuming I need to configure something with this approach but do not know where to start. Any other approach suggestions are welcome; i am not tied to quartz in any way. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993360#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...