You got it. As far as what you were saying before.... you should be able to have a page scoped attribute remain set indefinitely as long as your action method returns null, or match some other type of navigation rule that causes the page to be re-rendered. I've never tried it, I'm not a big fan of page scope because of the serialization, but I think it should work. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4077516#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...