No, when a conversation ends, the @End method is called. Not all stateful session beans are conversation scoped, in which case they wouldn't even need an @End. But you are right, if there's some task that needs to happen at the end of a conversation, the @End method would be the right place to do it. So I'm not sure where the @Destroy @Remove method is used for anything. I don't think it's used in any of the examples I have seen, but it must be present. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993729#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...