"gavin.king(a)jboss.com" wrote : I don't know why everyone is saying you can't use DAOs .... you can absolutely use DAOs if you want! There is no problem at all, just write an @Stateless bean with @Name("customerDao") and inject it into your action handler. | | It's just that you don't really need DAOs these days - they smell of overengineering.... I agree with you about about DAO's... What i dont like is manipulate JSF components in the same method/Object that i save a entity for example... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3971636#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...