Any ideas on this? I've looked around the net and seen that I'm obviously not the only one who is encountering this issue. You grab your EJBs somehow while in a JSF backing bean, and then when JSP tries to display them, it's an error because they are detached and some members are not initialized. Solution 1: Use a Filter that keeps an EntityManager hanging around for the duration of the request. Seems like an ugly way to do it, but I guess that would be "PHP-style", where it automatically frees DB connections when the request is finished. Solution 2: Use Seam. Looks like a lot of people like that idea. I'm thinking about doing it, but I need to get this application in demo soon, and I'm not sure if I want to take on yet another layer of complexity here. On the plus side, Seam looks quite interesting. Is this the way to do it? Solution 3: Anything else? This is a problem that would be universal in any type of JSP + EJB application, so I'm surprised at how hard it is to find answers on this. Please let me know if you have ideas. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3964816#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...