Hi Pete, I appreciate your suggestion and info, however, the reason I used the @Resource approach is because in the past, when this bean woke up to perform its timeout method, the Seam annotations would not be obeyed (since the timeout method is not being invoked in a JSF request). I don't know if Seam is capable of intercepting Timeout methods at this point...do you? Thanks, Brad Smith View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4085624#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...