As the input fields in the input form are based on the objectHome (EntityHome) they will be populated when the page reloads when you click on the edit link in the dataTable. This is done via the 2way param from the page.xml. So if you input form has inputs like: | <h:inputText id="name" value="#{objectHome.instance.name}"/> | Then it will be populated by the objectHome.find() method using the objectId. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044173#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...