Sounds like some kind of mis-configuration / packaging problem. Are you sure all your components are being scanned and installed at startup? Are you sure the object that you are injecting into is an object instantiated by Seam, and that the BijectoinInterceptor is being processed? @In(create=true) is always going to create the named component, assuming it exists. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3995147#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...