JSF 1.2 - Resource Injection for classes other than managed beans

I'm trying to get an EJB resource in a JSF converter, but the dependancy injection only seems to work with managed beans (see recent article http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/injection/index.html).

Simply creating a instance of a managed bean with a normally working resource injection , then getting a reference to that resource results in a null value. This I can understand because the JSF life-cycle at that point isn't geared up for a managed bean.

So the question is this - anybody know a way to get a resource reference using dependancy injection for converter/render kit etc via a managed bean? I realise I could just do an "old" JNDI lookup in the converter but I wondered if there was a better solution in JEE5

Cheers

Dan

[783 byte] By [daniel.rhoadesa] at [2007-10-3 0:01:51]