Pete, When you say CONVERSATION do you specifically mean a LONG RUNNING CONVERSATION or a TEMPORARY CONVERSATION? Is there a standard meaning of "Long Running Conversation" when members post "Conversation" in messages of this forum? I think it may also be necessary for the links or buttons that perform pagination to take part in the submission of the dataTable fields (ie the jsf postback) in order to update the database. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4057391#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...