Yes, no matter what the scope is, dependency injection occurs for every method invocation (except re-entrant calls). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4086340#4086340 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4086340