Thanks. Just to be clear: do I remove the @Name annotation from "Entity" in your example? Because I have tried using getters in my action class, but then I get javax.el Exceptions. Using your example, class MyBackingBean would have to be @Name d (say, "myBackingBean", and on the page I'd reference #{myBackingBean.entity1.someAccessor} (which gives me a javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException on "entity1"), or reference #{myBackingBean.getEntity1().someAccessor()}, in which case I get a javax.el.ELException "method not found". Does anyone have code proving two instances of the same entity type can be used on the same page with the same action class? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4106436#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...