Well you can't inject a SMPC into a non Seam component. Seam has no control over where @PersistenceContext comes from. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4069587#4069587 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4069587