WorkingMemory injected in EJB but not POJO

[x490812]

I have an EJB I am using as an event handler. When I inject my JBOSS Rules workingMemory into it, all is well; I have declared it in components.xml. Here is the code:

@Stateful
@Name("indexPage")
@Scope(org.jboss.seam.ScopeType.SESSION)
public class IndexPageBean implements IndexPage {

 @Logger
 private Log log;

 @In
 FacesMessages facesMessages;

 @In WorkingMemory wmUnderwriting;
.
.
.

HOWEVER - what I would like to do INSTEAD is use another seam component and inject the WorkingMemory into it instead of the event handler above. Here is my proposed code

@Name("UnderwritingService")
public class UnderwritingService
{
//TODO - NOTE - I changed the ant build script to include all .drl files
 // I.E., security.drl is now *.drl

 @In
 WorkingMemory wmUnderwriting;
.
.
.

The problem I am having is that when I manually instantiate this comopnent from the first comoponent, the workingMemory object is null. I dont understand, because it is NOT nulll whe it is injected into the EJB event handler, but it IS null when injected instead into the service component that I instantiate from the event handler. I am not understnading why injection works for the EJB and not for the pojo service component

[norman.richards]

What do you mean by "manually instantiate"? Do you mean that you create an instance using new? If so, that won't work because Seam only performs injection on seam-managed objects.

[gavin.king]

Never instantiate Seam components using new. Always use Component.getInstance() or @In

[x490812]

Thanks you all for your help - it worked; I am using Compoenent.getInstance("UnderwritingService")