I found out what was messing me up. I had a page with a4j:mediaOutput. The method that was creating the media output was driving me crazy because it was ignoring the conversation! Well, of course it was, because conversations don't propagate "through" a mediaOutput. I think that may be a bug / deficiency in a4j:mediaOutput. Anyway, workaround is simple. Provide what you want in the mediaOutput value="" attribute. It's obvious now that I see it, but it really frustrated me for a bit. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4114907#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...