"lightbulb432" wrote : For example, in a list of entities I'd like to show next to it the result of a query (i.e. that value isn't stored as a property of the entity, but is evaluated as a result of a query). You could use the map hack for this (look at Seam's isUserInRole) or preprocess as I mentioned above. BTW it would really be much easier to help if you actually posted example code of what you were trying to do. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4019426#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...