This is correct behavior since if you are in a long-running conversation, you can only join that conversation or nest another conversation. Nesting may be a good option if you want to have the potential for multiple conversations within the parent conversation. If nesting is not appropriate, you can leave the current conversation with conversationPropagation="none". If you are using facelets, this can be accomplished by: <h:commandButton value="List Study" action="#{studyList.findStudy}"> | <s:conversationPropagation propagation="none"/> | </h:commanButton> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4089706#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...