You got the answer in your subject :) In your first situation you are injecting the ActionListener (#{...}) which means Seam instantiates it properly. In the second situation you are just creating a new instance ActionListener al = new com.nortel.emp.listener.AddRoleListener(); - Seam doesn't instantiate it and so nothing gets injected. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3975494#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...