Actually you need one more thing to initialize the dataModel when the page loads: | <!DOCTYPE pages PUBLIC | "-//JBoss/Seam Pages Configuration DTD 1.2//EN" | "http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages-1.2.dtd"> | | <pages> | <page view-id="/bookmarks.xhtml" action="#{bookmarkViewer.getBookmarks}"/> | </pages> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4060691#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...