Could someone please explain the steps necessary to have ajax update the input fields and rerun the query. I have the entityquery running correctly when you enter text in a field and press the submit button - refreshing the datatable. What I am trying to do is change the behavior to where as the user is entering keystrokes into the input fields the parameters are updated and the query is then rerun - updateing the datatable and re-rendered. I have been successful in creating an ajax method call per keystroke but don't know how to update the query parameters and re-run the query. <h:inputText id="classTitle" value="#{staffCourseList.staffCourse.classTitle}" style="width: 165px;"> <a:support event="onkeyup" actionListener="#{staffCourseList.find}" /> </h:inputText> <a:commandButton id="submit" value="Find Course" action="#{staffCourseList.find}" reRender="dataTableStaffCourseList"/> Thanks for your help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4068900#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...