You'll need to pause before running step 9 (for at least the session timeout period since step 5). Closing of browsers (or navigation off-site) will not send anything back to the server, thus the only way to determine if a session is over (without hitting specific urls on the server) is a timeout. Your figures in step 9 should then be different. Seam (and any other server side code) will then handle the passivate code, @Destroy code on @Statefuls etc. You may find this timeout to be 30mins. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4110286#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...