I tried it, but wasn't successful. I found a tech note somewhere that said that WebSphere's injection engine will only inject into Java EE 5 defined resources (servlets, listeners, etc), and managed beans don't qualify as such. I thought about looking into Weld, but I haven't done anything with that yet.
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