I am using an @Resource annotation in a class instantiated in a ServletContextListener's contextInitialized(...) method, but the member is always null. Here's my sample code.

Listener:

public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
  System.err.println("In contextInitialised");
  new ResourceListenerTargetTest().executeMe(); 
}

ResourceListenerTargetTest:

@Resource(name="MyJDBCResource")
private DataSource source;
public void executeMe() {

  /*try {
    InitialContext ictx = new InitialContext();
    source = (DataSource)ictx.lookup("java:comp/env/MyJDBCResource");
  } catch (NamingException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
  }*/

  System.err.println("source is " + source);
}

If I switch the comments and run the manual resource lookup, it works fine.

Should the @Resource annotation work like this, when used in a contextInitalized method?

Appserver is WAS 7.0.0.5, if it should work then I guess it's a bug? Can anyone confirm?