Hello, ManagedPersistenceContext, upon passivation, checks to see if the entity manager is dirty, and if not, closes it. I presume this is intended as an optimization. But in a clustered environment, where a snapshot of the session is taken upon each request that dirties the session, passivation will occur frequently within a conversation. In this case, the entity manager is frequently closed and recreated upon the next request, and entities in conversational beans become detached, and all sorts of bad things happen when I try to use them in the new session. I think that to preserve the promise of long conversations, we have to keep the persistence context open across passivation, regardless of whether it's dirty. Am I misunderstanding something? If not, please verify this is problematic, and I'll file a Jira issue. Thanks, -Clint View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117587#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...