Thanks for the prompt response. The pageNo is being stored in the page as a hidden input so that I can avoid a long running conversation or session beans. I can't actually try it as a pojo since it requires the entityManager. Since I posted this I had an idea. I copied most of the concepts used from the booking example so I thought why not see if it works with that code. So I modified the booking example and guess what. It behaves exactly the same in that example. So I can only assume it must be a bug. I am using 2.0.0GA so I will download 2.0.1CR1 and see if it's fixed. Thanks again for your help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4120263#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...