While looking at the examples considering if I'm going to switch from spring opensessioninview to seam I noticed something: @Begin public String selectHotel() { hotel = em.merge( hotelSearch.getSelectedHotel() ); return "hotel"; } That is called when a second view is about to open receiving an entity from another view (and session). Is there a way to seam do the merge by itself without me doing it by hand? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3973884#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...