Take a look at the documentation on Factory and manager components. They will help you do what you want. Also the blog and messages examples show how you can initialize a contextual variable with DB data when a page is viewed. The messages example makes use of a DataTable binder, but you can use @Factory for anything, not just DataTables. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4039387#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...