Conversation-scoped EJBs should be @Stateful. IIRC, @Stateless beans will always be assigned to the Stateless pseudo-scope. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116767#4116767 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4116767