According to the spec "EJB Core Contracts and Requirements" section 16.4, simple environment entries can be injected using the @Resource annotation on all primitive wrapper classes + String. ... I have tried it with: <env-entry-name>instanceId</env-entry-name> AND <env-entry-name>com.di.examples.ejb/StatlessLifecycle/instanceId</env-entry-name> and neither seems to work.. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4198324#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...