I configured hibernate with seam and I am able to inject session object into my action classes which have reference from xhtml files.

*MyBookAction class*
@Name("action.myaction")
public class MyBookAction {
  @In(value = "cwDataSession")
  Session session;
public void save() {
  // persisetence logic.
  // session object is not null here.
}

*book.xhtml*
.....
<h:commandButton type="submit" value="Save" action="#{action.myaction.save}" />
.....

When I move the persistance logic to a DAO class the injection doesn't work anymore. Session object is always null.

@Name("dao.hibernate_generic")
public class GenericHibernateDAO<T, ID extends Serializable> implements GenericDAO<T, ID> {

@In
private Session session;

public void save() {
  // If I point my xhtml file to this method. Session object is injected.
  // <h:commandButton type="submit" value="Save" action="#{dao.hibernate_generic.save}" />
}

Strangely if I change my xhtml to point to a method in DAO class, session is injected properly. But I don't want to reference my DAO in xhtml.

I am using Seam 2.0.1GA and Hibernate 3.2.5GA. Deploying it is Jboss 4.2.2GA

What am I doing wrong? Why do I see this strange behaviour?