anonymous wrote : The @Factory method is not necessary. This was the next thing I tried after normal @In(create=true) didn't work. anonymous wrote : And I don't think what you think it does is what it is actually for. Care to enlighten me? Given the definition below, I thought I was using it correctly. anonymous wrote : Marks a method as a factory method for a context variable. A factory method is called whenever no value is bound to the named context variable, and is expected to initialize the value of the context variable. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034291#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...