Why do you put the user in Conversation scope? 1. A new session begins when the user is logged in, right? 2. A session can contain multiple conversations,right? So it is better to put your user object in session scope. If your plan is, that the user has to login for exactly only one special conversation please give more details about your use case. Thanks. My app put the user in session scope. The authenticator is similar to yours. But i am not using EJB. so i do not have experience with SFSB and so on. So there could be another problem hidden. Ciao, Carsten View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4022419#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...