Hello,

I'm trying to do something pretty straightforward.  I want a 2 or 3 screen wizard that will populate and entity object that gets persisted at the end of the wizard.  Sounds like a job for a conversation.

I start my conversation in a page.xml file:

   <begin-conversation join="true"/>

I've taken my default seam-gen'ed Home object and added annotations to make it conversation-scoped:

@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
@Name("custorderHome")
public class CustorderHome extends EntityHome<Custorder> {

     @In(create = true)
     AddressHome addressHome;
     @In(create = true)
     UserHome userHome;

...

Ok, so now the UI.  I have a page like below; the first screen of my wizard:

<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
                             "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
                xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
                xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
                xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
                xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
                template="layout/template.xhtml">
                       
<ui:define name="body">
    
    <h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="message" id="globalMessages"/>

    <h:form id="wiz1" styleClass="edit">

    <rich:panel>
        <f:facet name="header">New Order Wizard (1 of 3)</f:facet>

        <s:decorate id="active" template="layout/display.xhtml">
            <ui:define name="label">Order for User</ui:define>
               <h:selectOneMenu id="selectUser"
                     value="#{custorderHome.instance.user}">
                    <s:selectItems value="#{userList.resultList}" var="user" 
                         label="#{user.name}" 
                         noSelectionLabel="Select User"
                         hideNoSelectionLabel="1" />
                    <s:convertEntity/>
               </h:selectOneMenu> 
        </s:decorate>
        <p/>
    </rich:panel>
    
    <div class="actionButtons">      
        <s:button view="/Wizard_2.xhtml" 
                    id="next" 
                 value="Next"/>

        <s:button view="/home.xhtml"
                    id="cancel"
                 value="Cancel"/>
    </div>
    </h:form>
</ui:define>

</ui:composition>

So far, so good.  When run I do get a nice pull-down populated with users as I expect, but... when I hit Next to go to wizard page 2 something doesn't carry over--my User assignment from page 1 isn't visible.  In page 1 the pull down is supposed to select and populate a User from the list but on page 2 if I have code like the following I see displayed true, false, (nothing), and (nothing) respectively:

Managed: #{custorderHome.managed}
Wired: #{custorderHome.wired}
Id: #{custorderHome.instance.idcustOrder}
User: #{custorderHome.instance.user.name}

What am I not doing right?  I go to the debug.seam screen and can validate that a conversation has been created, a custorderHome object exists in that conversation, but the instance is empty (non-null, but not populated) there too.

Thanks for any help,
Greg