I'm not quite getting your scenarios. "curtney" wrote : | | MyStatelessBean has another stateless bean (MyStatlessDAO) that is also being injected with @EJB. | However, the declared entity manager is not injected. I am assumming it fails because Seam does not have control of the creation and injection of the ejb (myStatlessDAO)??? Yes, you've injected the MyStatelessDAO using @EJB right? So it's not a Seam component so Seam has nothing to do with it. anonymous wrote : Again, MyStatelessDAO entity manager is not injected (It inherits this from MyGenericDAO). It fails because Seam does not have control of the creation and injection of the ejb? Yes, as above View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4094147#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...