Using Seam 2.1.1.CR2.

In my Seam application I have this bean:

@Name("createPojoTest")
public class CreatePojoTest {
        String message = "init() HAS NOT been executed!";
        
        @Create
        private void init() { message = "init() HAS been executed!"; }

        public String getMessage() { return message; }
}

And in a JSF page, I pring the message with a <h:outputText value="#{createPojoTest.message}" />. However, I keep getting this exception:

org.jboss.seam.InstantiationException: Could not instantiate Seam component: createPojoTest
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:2106)
        ...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: method not found: init for component: createPojoTest
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.callComponentMethod(Component.java:2229)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.callCreateMethod(Component.java:2134)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:2094)
        ... 70 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: br.com.engenhodesoftware.sigme.core.controller.CreatePojoTest_$$_javassist_13.init()
        at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1605)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.callComponentMethod(Component.java:2208)
        ... 72 more

If I remove the @Create annotation, I get no exception, but the init() method is obviously not called and I get the "init() HAS NOT been executed!" message in the web page.

As I understood from Seam's documentation (section 4.4), @Create and @Destroy are provided as replacements for EJB 3.0 lifecycle callback methods so it can be used in normal POJOs. Did I misunderstand something?

What should I do to fix this?

Thank you,

Vítor