Your DAOs can have a getPersistenceContext() method in which you do Component.getInstance("entityManager"). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4069608#4069608 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4069608