anonymous wrote : But if this is correct doesn't this problem apply to any case where the scope of the datamodel is longer than that of the action bean outjecting it? The same could happen with a stateless action bean and a conversation scoped datamodel. No because the only scope you can specify on @DataModel is PAGE (otherwise it is UNSPECIFIED aka same as the containing component). I will write this up for the manual. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4078759#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...