I want to populate a "selectOneMenu" from the database once a page is loaded The page (XHTML) is associated with an action bean (Java) I can not access the database in the java class constructor because there the EntityManager is null Everything is working fine when I am calling some load function in the java from another page. However, what if this page is the first page of my site? Does anyone has an elegant solution ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035217#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...