It might be that the conversation is promoted to long-running later in the lifecycle (after the debug statement). Tried putting output on the view? But I can't really say why the "bean" isn't picked up. It should be there, since conversation=request if it's not long running. The @Conversational might complain, but the bean should still be found(?). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122054#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...