You should decide what scope makes sense for your application and make Seam do the right thing, not the other way around ;) Session scope makes sense if you want the same result list to be displayed without the user hitting Search again whilst they are logged in. A nested conversation makes sense if you want to hold the list in a conversation and atomically edit entities. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4101817#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...