Well, my temporary solution is that instead of outjecting a @DataModel I just set the value of the DataTable to a method that always refreshs the list. view: <t:dataTable value="#{bean.sessions}" var="session"> ... SFSB: private List sessions; public String find() { query(); return null; } public List getSessions() { query(); return sessions; } ---- This seems to be a reasonably non-ugly solution, but it's not really the "Seam" way of doing things, so I'd really love to hear a better way to keep sort order, search, rowcount, values (session or conversation scope) while having the outjected @DataModel always be the latest (refreshed). I think, ideally, Seam would provide an annotation to acheive this. Thoughts? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3986286#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...