Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but it seems pretty relevant. Is there a way to correctly use SMPCs to have a truly extended context for use with, say, a Session scope entity bean? I have a "currentUser" bean that's in session scope, and it has references to various other components - I'm looking for a way to be able to reference these in pages whether or not they've previously been loaded. However, everything seems to be aimed at mid-life conversation scoped objects. Would I be better off simply storing the ID in session scope and doing a factory every time? That seems a little intensive, but at the same time I don't want to have to create an action for every page just to create a persistence context to merge() the currentUser object to. What's the correct thing to do here? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4080963#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...