anonymous wrote : The semantics say: begin (or continue) a (the) conversation after returning not null resp. no exception occurred. But I want to switch the order. Intentionally, I want the conversation to begin before the login method is entered. Is that possible somehow? Actually they say "promote the existing temporary conversation context to a long-running conversation after....", which is quite different. There is always a conversation. @Begin just says it should survive longer than this request. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4022543#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...