I think this should be removed/changed in Seam manual as ifNotBegunOutcome is deprecated....? anonymous wrote : | @Conversational(ifNotBegunOutcome="error") | Specifies that a conversation scope component is conversational, meaning that no method of the component | can be called unless a long-running conversation started by this component is active (unless the method | would begin a new long-running conversation). | Br, Juha View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4013030#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...