Your right. I went back and traced through the logs again and I thought it was being destroyed since I saw some context.destroy messages in the log. I mis-read them as being in the stateful context.....Thanks for putting me on the right path. I'm really used to stateless frameworks and wrapping my head around a conversation's interactions and subtlies is a bit more than I initial thought it was going to be. Thanks for the patience. Chris.... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3961448#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...