I think I am finally getting you. IMHO it is acceptable that the backing list would be null during the second call but than null would be outjected again and the dataModel removed from its scope after the call which is probably a bit confusing :-). But if this is correct doesn't this problem apply to any case where the scope of the datamodel is longer than that of the action bean outjecting it? The same could happen with a stateless action bean and a conversation scoped datamodel. Regards Felix View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4078717#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...