Are you asking how to make your event scoped query be conversation/session scoped like a stateful component? If so, look at the @Scope annotation. (or the scope attribute on the xml) If you want to stay in the EVENT scope with your query, try adding using a more dynamic value. This works best from components.xml: max-results="#{someSessionObject.maxResults}" Or, you could add the max results as a request paramter: | <page view-id="/search.xhtml"> | <param name="howmany" value="#{yourQuery.maxResults}" /> | </page> | I'm not sure what way fits your app best. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992839#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...