hello all,
i am experiencing hugep roblem sin exposing one of my Session bean varaibles as a DAtaModel to be displayed in the page..

Here's an excerpt of my Stateful Session Bean

@Stateful
@Local ( {EControlSession.class})
@Name("econtrol")


@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)



public class EControlSessionBean
 implements EControlSession, java.io.Serializable
{


 private Expense expense = new Expense();


 private Item item = new Item();

 @PersistenceContext
 EntityManager em;

 @DataModel("expenses")
 List<Expense> expenses;
 ......

According to docs, Seam will expose my List as a context varaible named
"expenses".

then i wrote a small page (on the example of Seam example)

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
 xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
 template="template.xhtml">

 <ui:define name="body">

 <h2> QueryPage</h2>
 <f:view>
 <h:form id="entry">

 <h:commandButton action="#{econtrol.searchExpenses}" value="QueryAll"
 class="formButton" style="width: 166px;" />


 <c:choose>
 <c:when test="#{expenses==null}">
 <p>
 This is the Expense search screen. Use the search
 box to the right to search for Expenses.
 </p>
 </c:when>
 <c:when test="#{empty expenses}">
 <p>
 No expenses were found
 </p>
 </c:when>
 <c:otherwise>

 <table align="center">
 <tr>
 <td>
 <h:dataTable id="table"
 value="#{expenses}"
 var="expense"
 rowClasses="oddRow, evenRow"
 headerClass="tableHeader">
 <h:column>
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="Date"/>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{expense.date}"/>
 </h:column>
 <h:column>
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="Site"/>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{expense.site}"/>
 </h:column>
 <h:column>
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="Amount ()"/>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{expense.totalAmount}"/>
 </h:column>
 </h:dataTable>
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </c:otherwise>
 </c:choose>


 </h:form>
 <h:messages/>

 </f:view>

 </ui:define>
</ui:composition>

i thought it should have worked, instead the code correspondign to

<c:when test="#{expenses==null}">
 <p>
 This is the Expense search screen. Use the search
 box to the right to search for Expenses.
 </p>
</c:when>

is executed.

when i look at jboss logs, here's what i find

2006-06-12 13:52:18,968 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamVariableResolver] resolving name: expenses
2006-06-12 13:52:18,968 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.Component] seam component not found: expenses
2006-06-12 13:52:18,968 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamVariableResolver] could not resolve name

but i thought that according to that @DataModel annotation i could have exposed my expenses List..
i havent written any getExpenses() method, looking at seam examples all beans that exposes a @DataModel dont' have any getteres/setters for that...

can anyone tell me hwat i am missing?

thanks and regards
marco