You may want to try accessing the bean you pass into your template using the #{editor[edit]} type notation instead. This is a shot in the dark because I haven't tried it but I've seen it suggested for this type of use elsewhere. I figured I'd also point out that your outdated list issue can be solved by beginning a conversation on your list page, outjecting the DataModel to the conversation and using a @Conversational annotation on your selection method. I take it some people aren't crazy about conversation scoped DataModels but they sure make paging and sorting easy. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3984794#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...