no docResult.doc.creator is an array of String In the second dataTable I loop thou the array and bind each array element to the var "c" and the elements of docResult.doc.getCreator() are instanceof Strings | <h:dataTable id="DT_creator" var="c" value="#{docResult.doc.creator}"> | <h:column id="Column_creator"> | <h:form id="Form_creator" styleClass="subText" style="margin:auto;padding:auto; /*just for the IE*/"> | <s:link id="Link_searchByCreator" value="[#{c}]," action="#{searcher.searchByCreator(c)}"/> | </h:form> | </h:column> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4120073#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...