This has been discussed on this forum a lot. As Pete says in section 31.1.2 of the doc linked to, if you want to use s:link or s:button inside an iterative component then the list that the iterative component uses must be annotated with @DataModel. In your case your "cat" bean will be something like: | @DataModel | List<Question> questionList = new ArrayList<Question>(); | but note that this will outject a context variable called "questionList", so your datatable will have to refer to it like:<h:dataTable styleClass="dataTable" columnClasses="categoryName" var="question" value="#{questionList}"> (note that the value attribute has changed) Cheers, Damian View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4123243#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...