I ran into a problem (not using ajax). I had a conversation running so the criteria were not lost. The entity query would refresh during apply request values (obviously as the tree is restored), the criteria would be updated, and then the query requested for render response BUT as the query had already been run, it wasn't with the updated criteria. So, I made the query stateless (added scope="stateless") attribute, and it works as expected (just with a bit more overhead). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993297#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...