"twocoasttb" wrote : I don't see why this finder bean itself should require any state. Am I wrong? It certainly shouldn't have to around in SESSION scope. It needs some state - a stateless bean looses state between each invocation - it is invoked update data model (i think?) to set the datamodel selection, and then in INVOKE_APPLICATION to call the action - the state is lost between these. Further, you need to hold the state of the datamodel between the two requests - this is due to how JSF works (the restore view phase). The PAGE or CONVERSATION scope is ideal for this [qupte]Don't ever set var="org" in a dataTable. Doing so causes Seam to go nuts searching contexts and it eventually throws an exception because can't find a property called 'jboss' in the entity bean. Should I report this as a bug? I'd be happy to provide a test case. Using var="o" changes the behavior completely. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008892#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...