When you say, "omilian3" wrote : ... Both of these 'begin' methods are called, so at this point I expect I'll have a long running conversation... I am assuming you are saying that the methods are called on different actions, not from the same action, correct? You shouldn't be calling more than one method with an @Begin during an action. Please post the related code and it will be easier to see what might be going on. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091520#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...