it took me a bit, but after i stopped trying to make theirs serialization work,, and used my head,,, i came up with a workaround. what i was trying to do was get the graphically ordered list to the server so i could sort it in an array and persist any changes. created session bean with a string field and use seam remote. | Sortable.create('list',{onUpdate:function(){ | var orderLayerList = ''; | var orderedNodes = document.getElementById('list').getElementsByTagName('li'); | for (var i = 0; i < orderedNodes.length; i++) { | orderLayerList += orderedNodes | .getAttribute('id') + ', '; | } | Seam.Component.getInstance('someAction').parseLayerList(orderLayerList); | var ef = new Effect.Highlight('list',{});}}); | parse the string with a tokenizer. | StringTokenizer line = new StringTokenizer(list,", ", false); | int tokencount = line.countTokens(); | log.info("token count" + tokencount); | List<String> layerarray = new ArrayList<String>(); | for (int dem=0; dem < tokencount ; dem++){ | layerarray.add(line.nextToken()); | log.info(layerarray.get(dem).toString()); | } | then i got distracted and i havent finished the rest. but now it is in an array and should be no problem. was that a good approach? seemed to work. thanks for the response though. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4118489#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...