You are accessing two different objects: One is the car created by the factory method and then outjected into whatever scope you declared. The other is the member variable of the CarHome object. Since the last one is not outjected the scoped object is not replaced. I'm just guessing. I have never used the home objects and you did not post your code. Regards Felix View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4010984#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...