Page- or event-scoped query would be recreated (and reexecuted) for each and every action performed on the page, including record navigation/selection. My idea was to minimize database hits by caching the queried list in conversation scope, only updating it when I know its state would change, i.e. when a record gets updated/inserted/deleted. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4065801#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...