Thanks all. I got this working. Remember: The value= attribute on the dataTable should be the name used for the @Factory annotation. In the example below 'theList' In session bean: @Factory("theList") public void loadList() { some code to load it } In the page: <h:dataTable id="testList" var="listItem" value="#{theList}" View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4073659#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...