Could you please elaborate a bit why injection is happening for every method call instead of only 1 time on the 1st call. I'm asking because I thought that configuration with xml or with annotations leads to the same result. Further, if i declare a request scoped bean I expect it to be there and exactly the same for the whole life cycle of the request - therefore it would be less preoptimization than avoidance of unnecessary work. The only reason i first could have thought of was because of some object caching / pooling issues but as this has to work for annotation configured stuff too it can't be the reason. So please elaborate / clarify this a bit. Thanks in advance View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3990289#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...