I have a stateful Session EJB running as a Seam component in conversational scope.  It's a simple registration example and when I test it in the browser everything works fine.

I have a single page action set up in pages.xml which fires a method to create a long-running conversation when the user goes to the registration page:

     <page view-id="/register.xhtml" action="#{Registration.beginRegistration}"/>

The important bits of my registration bean look like this (with some code omitted such as getters and setters):

@Stateful 
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
@Name("Registration")
public class Registration implements RegistrationInterface, Serializable {

    @Logger Log log;
    
    @PersistenceContext(type=PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED)
    @In EntityManager entityManager;
    
    @In(create=true, required=false, value="account")
    @Out(required=false) Account account; // the account that is going to be created by the user
    
    
    @Begin
    public void beginRegistration() {
         log.info("beginRegistration()");
         account = new Account();
    }
     
    
     @End
     public void register()
      {
         log.info("register()");
        log.info("Hello, " + account.getName());

        // details omitted
        entityManager.persist(account);
     
      }
     


    @Remove   
    @Destroy 
    public void destroy() {}

         
}

I've written an integration test as follows:

public class RegistrationInterfaceTest extends SeamTest {


     @Test
     public void test() throws Exception {

          new FacesRequest("/register.xhtml") {

               @Override
               protected void updateModelValues() throws Exception {                    
                    //set form input to model attributes
                    setValue("#{account.name}", "Tom");
                    setValue("#{account.email", "tom@blah.blah");
               } 
               @Override
               protected void invokeApplication() {
                    //call action methods here
                    invokeMethod("#{Registration.register}");
               }
               @Override
               protected void renderResponse() {
                    //check model attributes if needed
                    assert getValue("#{account.name}").equals("Tom");
               }
          }.run();
          
          
     }

...but it doesn't seem to fire the page action defined in pages.xml .  When I go to the page in a browser I can see the method being fired.

What might I be doing wrong?  Do I need to post more information?  I'm fairly new to Seam and this is my first foray into using the FacesRequest class.

Thanks in advance for any help...