[jboss-user] Help with retrieving data when page displays

Hello, i am new to seam applications and i have a probem.Any help would be appriciated. i have a mysql database and i have a table named rules filled with data. i want when i login in in the seam application to see a page where all my table data are displayed. i made an entity bean called rules with getters and setters methods. and in the rules.xhtml page i have Rule Name <h:outputText value="#{rules.rule_name}"/> but i see nothing!!! how can i query the db before the page displays so i can see my data??? thank you in advance