Thanks for the reply. I solved my problem/mystery (predicatably my fault). The code in question is being called from outside the phase listeners, in a custom Lifecycle implementation to be precise so the Seam Lifecycle.endRequest() never gets called to flush out the conversation context. Just have to do it manually in this instance. Cheers. Mike. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4038164#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...