The example I posted above does make use of the @DataModelSelection annotation, although I left it out of the example (stupidly). I make use of the "companyList" via the @In annotation in another bean, and I can call a getter which returns the currently selected row of the DataModel. I'm pretty sure the trick is just to set the "value" attribute of the dataTable to a getter method that will supply an updated model even on a partial submit. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4025496#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...