When you say you have conversation.id output, what do you mean? Are you seeing the cid in the URL? When the view is displayed and you mouse over the link you should see the current conversationId as a query parameter (in your example conversationId=1 or if you have customized the id parameter cid=1). "vanyatka" wrote : ps. I never worked with JSF before, is it absolutely necessary to know all the intricacies of JSF in order to write Seam apps? | It is not necessary to know all the intracacies of JSF to write Seam apps :) Seam abstracts most of the details of JSF so you don't have to worry about them making it very easy to develop applications. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4088238#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...