I have some stateless beans injected into a stateful bean that are only required at destroy time. Currently when destroy is invoked, these beans are null. Code is as follows:

@Name("sessionTimeoutHandler")
@Stateful
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class SessionTimeoutHandlerHome implements SessionTimeoutHandler, Serializable
{
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

 @Logger
 private Log log;

 @In(create=true)
 private SessionDao sessionDao; // this is stateless

 @In(create=true)
 private AuditLog auditLog; // and so is this

 private Session currentSession;

 ...

 @Remove @Destroy
 public void destroy() {
 // Session has timed out, so update the user session entry and perform
 // cleanup.
 currentSession.setClosed(new Date());

 sessionDao.merge(currentSession);

 auditLog.addAuditEntry("User session timeout for session id #0" currentSession.getId());

 log.info("User session timeout for session id #0" currentSession.getId());
 }
}

Should I be getting the stateless beans injected at this point? I'm sure I've seen this working in the past.

When creating the bean I did notice what I believe to be inconsistent behaviour with respect to @Logger injection. I initially created the bean using method 1 below, by simply specifying the bean as an @Out parameter and instantiating the object within an action. Using this method, the @Logger object on SessionTimeoutHandler was null when @Destroy was called. However, when I changed to method 2 the logger was available - but still no stateless beans.

Creation Method 1 - Using @Out
@Name("login")
@Stateful
@Scope(ScopeType.EVENT)
public class LoginAction implements Login, Serializable
{
 @Out(required=false)
 private SessionTimeoutHandler sessionTimeoutHandler;


 public String login() {
 ...

 SessionTimeoutHandler sessionTimeoutHandler = new SessionTimeoutHandler();

 // create a session timeout handler
 sessionTimeoutHandler.setCurrentSession(currentSession);
 }
}


Creation Method 2 - Using @In(create = true)
@Name("login")
@Stateful
@Scope(ScopeType.EVENT)
public class LoginAction implements Login, Serializable
{
 @In(create = true)
 @Out(required = false)
 private SessionTimeoutHandler sessionTimeoutHandler;


 public String login() {
 ...

 // create a session timeout handler
 sessionTimeoutHandler.setCurrentSession(currentSession);
 }
}

I am using Seam 1.1 CR2.