"pete.muir(a)jboss.org" wrote : The scope is conversation. The same Persistence Context will injected by @In (or via programmatic lookup) during the lifetime of that conversation. If you inject via @PersistenceContext, it isn't a SMPC. Thanks for that. Just to confirm, there is no way to propagate a persistence context between a SMPC and one not managed by Seam. I am nearly certain that is the case, just want to be sure. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116678#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...