Hi, I am new to Jboss seam but I am having a great time learning it.

I am trying to use seam components with a very simple web service and I keep receiving:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active

Here is my code and this error happens when i call Component.getInstance.

@Stateless
@WebService(name = "SampleService", serviceName = "SampleService")
public class SampleService {
     @WebMethod
     public DefaultWebServiceResponse runDbScript(String username, String password,String env,
               String database, String script)
     {
          DefaultWebServiceResponse response =  new DefaultWebServiceResponse();
                  Queries queries = (Queries) Component.getInstance("queries");
          List<Users> list = queries.getUsers(username, password);
          if (list.size() == 0)
          {
               response.setDescription("User/password combination does not match");
               response.setReturnCode("-1");
               return response;
          }
          
          // return response          
          response.setDescription("Just a stub");
          response.setReturnCode("0");
          return response;
     }

}

And the queries Component:

@Name("queries")
public class Queries implements QueriesLocal{
     @In 
     EntityManager entityManager;
     
     public Queries()
     {
          
     }
     
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public List<Users> getUsers(String username, String password)
     {
        List<Users> matchedUsers = entityManager.createQuery(
                  "from Users where username= " + username +
                  " and password = " + password
                  ).getResultList(); 
        return matchedUsers;
     }

}

I have also added standard-jaxws-endpoint-config.xml to META-INF folder. The web service without seam works well and so does the rest of the user interface. My only issue is that I cannot use seam components inside the web calls.

Since this is a web service call, do I need to do anything else to enable seam contexts to work?