Yes. It's very hard to give help for such a non-specific problem, but some ideas * Use facelets and templating to create a generic form which can be embedded * Think about where you whether you are going to use conversations, and if so, where you want them to start/end and when you want to enable/disable their propogation * Consider what the differences are between persisting a new object and updating an existing one View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959059#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...