To me using conversation scope for a stateless bean sounds wrong. If your component has no state then it may as well be in the Seam stateless scope. The @Out annotation will outject a component back into the relevant Seam context. How long that outjected reference survives for is dependent on the scope of the outjected component, not the component that is outjecting it. HTH. Mike. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4033591#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...