I see that the Seam Faces module includes annotations for @Begin and @End. Not much in the documentation or example usage though.

Any way I thought I'd try and use these undocumented features by annotating a function as:

     @PostConstruct
     @Begin
     protected void postConstruct() {
     }

This doesn't seem to start a conversation. Can anyone explain how this works? Is it meant to do something? Without any documentation I was just taking a stab in the dark. Perhaps I should just read the source code - who needs documentation anyway.

I shall return to the straight and narrow and continue with:

     @PostConstruct
     protected void postConstruct() {
          if (conversation.isTransient())
               conversation.begin();
     }