Update: Setting the scope to CONVERSATION makes those edit and save links work (provided they are h:commandLink's and not s:link's), but then the header sorting of the table doesn't work. With the scope set to PAGE the sorting works and the entity that's being edited with the edit and save operations gets updated but doing em.persist on it doesn't write the information into the database. Any ideas why that is and how it can be remedied? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4094572#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...