End causes the conversation to be demoted to a temporary conversation (which then ends at the end of the current request). None causes the conversation not to be propagated - if you looked at the conversation list on debug.xhtml or displayed a list of conversations to the user it would still be there (just not active). Inactive conversations timeout (set via components.xml). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012377#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...