Thanks for the reply. I'm still having issues though. I changed my searchAction to contain | @In(value="profileRecord", required=false) | private ProfileRecord searchRecord; | if my xhtml contains | <div style="text-align: right;"><label>WA #:<h:inputText value="#{searchRecord.workAuthorizationNumber}" /></label></div> | <div style="text-align: right;"><label>Proposal #:<h:inputText value="#{searchRecord.proposalNumber}" /></label></div> | I continue to get the value cannot be converted error. which makes sense to me. if I leave the xhtml to read | <div style="text-align: right;"><label>WA #:<h:inputText value="#{profileRecord.workAuthorizationNumber}" /></label></div> | <div style="text-align: right;"><label>Proposal #:<h:inputText value="#{profileRecord.proposalNumber}" /></label></div> | It seems to work. If I understand this correctly, there will be no way for me to inject a property named searchRecord of type ProfileRecord into an action from my xhtml. My xhtml will always have to represent the ProfileRecord entity by specifying #{profileRecord.blah}. This just doesn't seem right. How can I represent two different entity components on the same page in the same scope? One option would be to create them in a factory to create a default object so it is already as a component. That seems noisy though. Along those lines, I would think I could also specify @In(create=true) | private ProfileRecord searchRecord; in my action and then use #{searchRecord} in my xhtml, but that doesn't seem to work either. I still get the value could not be created error. I'm assuming that I am still missing something critical. Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012696#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...