"lightbulb432" wrote : Additional question: | | When updating elements in a long-running conversation, is one big update sent to the database when the conversation is explicitly ended? | no. Data is updated when a transaction starts and commits. Read http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.1GA/reference/en/html/configuration.html#d0e... anonymous wrote : use two transactions per request; the first spans the beginning of the update model values phase until the end of the invoke application phase; the second spans the render response phase If you want one big update, specify @Begin(flushMode = MANUAL) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4005887#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...