"amorfis" wrote : As far as I understand this, exception is thrown because testEntity is not initialized. I don't see any relation to @Factory here. @In is supposed to do the initialization! That's what dependency injection is.............. Right? As I said, if @Factory is not there, the TestEntity bean is correctly initialized and injected. The exception is not thrown. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4114855#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...