"jcelano(a)netkey.com" wrote : 2) Not sure why i would need a long running conversation (unless i am completely missing something). The scope is relatively small...the page is displayed, the validation fails on the page. It seems to me that the validation failure should return the page as a managed page, but then again, i could be completely off base. If you want to maintain state between requests you will have to begin a long-running conversation. A temporary conversation only lasts for the scope of a request. In other words, all state is lost at the end of the request (when the response is rendered) unless you specify to promote the conversation to long-running. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4103383#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...