anonymous wrote : Or, I could be way off... Lets go with that. After digging deeper, I found that before navigating to the page in question (listcontacts.xhtml), the page I was navigating from started a new conversation using @Begin in combination with @Create. Worse, it used @End with its @Destroy method. So the problem wasn't so much the timeout as much as when it cleaned up the previous bean (used for the previous page), it found the @End and likely ended the current conversation as well. I'm not sure where I saw this @Destroy/@End combo, but I'm thinking I should avoid doing that as I would imagine the behavior is unpredictable. Sorry for the false alarm. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4066339#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...