I have no idea why the commandLink doesn't work. Perhaps it is because of something happening in the persist method? @Begin and @End do not really begin and end conversations themselves - they mark the current conversation as being long running or not long running, and Seam makes use of this information at the end of the request. Does that make the behavior you are observing more understandable? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3998429#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...