In other words, and as the documentation says, what you just wrote is equivalent to this: | | @In("#{pp.di}") | Long projectPlanId; | | public String edit() { | ... | } | That also doesn't work because at call time of edit(), no #{pp.id} can be resolved - pp is just the loop variable that is used during rendering of the previous page. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044391#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...