Nope that was all I changed- there was one thing that occured to me this morning though, but I haven't played with this so I don't know if this makes a difference or not - my Editor bean is conversation scoped, my Finder bean is session scoped. @DataModel has a scope parameter, but from the javadocs, anonymous wrote : Outjects a collection to the same scope as the owning component (or to the EVENT scope in the case of a stateless component)... Let me know if you figure out what exactly causes this behavior. Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3994666#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...