@PostConstruct never called on SessionScoped Managed Bean

[Ismael Gimenez]

Banging my head after few hours, i figured out that I was calling limpiarFormulario() before it get initiated/born. So I was getting a null pointer in utilEJB class. The idea seems to be that I need to use the @PostConstruct init method to call the limpiarFormulario() since the EJB are already injected. The problem is that the @PostConstruct is never called.

Can anybody explain me why???

@ManagedBean(name="categoriaBean")
@SessionScoped
public class CategoriaBean extends ABMBean {

	@EJB
	private ICategoriaEJB categoriaEJB;
	
	
	@EJB
	private IUtilEJB utilEJB;
	
	private Categoria categoria;
	private List<Categoria> categorias;
	
	@PostConstruct
        public void init(){
        System.out.println("se ejecuto el postConstruct");
	}


	public CategoriaBean() {
		super("categoria");
		categoria = new Categoria();
		System.out.println("pero esto si se ejecuto");
		//limpiarFormulario(); esto va despues de que arreglemos lo del @PostConstruct
	}
	
	public Categoria getCategoria() {
		return categoria;
	}

	public void setCategoria(Categoria categoria) {
		this.categoria = categoria;
	}
	
	public List<Categoria> getCategorias(){
		return (List<Categoria>) utilEJB.getEntidades(Categoria.class);
	}

	public void setCategorias(List<Categoria> categorias) {
		this.categorias = categorias;
	}
	
	@Override
	public void limpiarFormulario() {
		categoria = new Categoria();
		categorias = (List<Categoria>) utilEJB.getEntidades(Categoria.class);
		setEstado(EstadoABM.NUEVO);
	}
        
       ...

}

Thanks in advance!!