petemuir, thanks for the suggestion. You're right that #2 is the way to go, but I've tried that and got this exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: @DataModel scope must be ScopeType.UNSPECIFIED or ScopeType.PAGE: If I could @DataModel(scope=ScopeType.EVENT) and If that means that this list would be refreshed (the factory method called) on every new event then that'd be perfect. I actually tried outjecting a List (instead of DataModel) to get around this issue but I found that while the list would be refreshed everytime I hit "search" (as it always did) it would still not be refreshed on subsequent page loads. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3986315#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...