The more I look at this, the more I'm starting to think this is a bug. I removed my @Begin figuring I can just rely on the temporary conversation. Its my understanding that I should have a temporary conversation across the request and reply. But even without the @Begin, I get the same error after a conversation timeout. It really seems to me that the timeouts should be applied as early as possible and that the outjection should be to the new temporary conversation. Or, I could be way off... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4066247#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...