nested conversations? no - I wasn't planning on it in this use case. The main thing here is that I was trying to test from SeamTest.FacesRequest that the explicit (custom-generated) conversation id is the conversation id. It looks like the expression for my explicit id is being evaluated the way I want, I was (am) confused as to why the test case doesn't reflect that when I call getConversationId() after invoking the business method. Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4052716#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...