I have been struggling with this as well for the last few hours. The way I finally solved it was giving the injected variable the same name as the @Name value of the object to be injected. If I do not do this, I see in the debug that Seam tries to find a contectVariable with the name of the variable to be injected. It does not look (anymore?) for a contextVariable of the same type. If it finds nothing, no the create=true does not go off. So: @In(create=true) MyObj myVar | in combination with | @Name("myVar") works whereas @In(create=true) MyObj myOtherVar | in combination with | @Name("myVar") does not (does not find the variable, but worse, does not create a new one) An additional test with @In(create=true, value="myVar") MyObj myOtherVar | in combination with | @Name("myVar") works to... Oh.. and I do not have a richpanel View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091786#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...