I am becoming increasingly convinced that this is an issue with page actions and not an issue with my configuration. I have completely removed all references to any persistence related components and changed loadEmployee() and added accessors like so: public void loadEmployee(){ | this.firstName = "monkey"; | } | | public String getFirstName() { | return firstName; | } | | public void setFirstName(String firstName) { | this.firstName = firstName; | } and the view: #{testEmployeeAction.firstName} Still it fails at the same rate. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063220#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...