i only want to fetch those items which are shown on the current active page. therefore i need the actual index of the datatable. but by the time the factory method is executed the method binding.datatable.getFirst() always returns 0. my question is how can i get the current index of my datatable so that i can use it to build the query in the factory method. thank you for your suppot, sven ps: i can't use an entityquery because i haven't an entitymanager at all. i'm building a webapp on top of a third party ecommerce plattform which provides its own api with a sql like qery language. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4098605#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...