Why not load all the rows at the start of a conversation and then only display the ones needed - avoids too many dataloads (which I would assume you are trying to avoid) and means you can use @DataModel/@DataModelSelection. Or perhaps you could lazy load the data - when the next button is pressed check whether you have the needed rows loaded from the database, and if they aren't, load them. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963989#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...