hmm.....you're first attempt should have worked if you did the following: 1. Remove your spring bean reference. 2. Do <seam:instance id="springHook" name="springHook" proxy="true"/> 3. You probably will want to change the scope of your SpringHook Seam component to METHOD since I believe you may run into concurrency issues using APPLICATION scope with @In unless you make your method calls @Synchronized. That's strange that <seam:component intercept="ALWAYS"/> Didn't work. I'll have to look at that one. Let me know how the above turns out. Mike View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4028005#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...