I'm stuck and need help. I've got a simple page that has a panelGrid backed by an entity bean. When the page first loads, i'm assuming the entity bean is created (in the request context) and the default values are displayed. I have a commandButton that calls a method on my SFSB to retrieve a particular entity. The entity is annotated with @Out, but my page reloads with the same default values. How do I know the SFSB is even being called? I see that it's loaded during startup via the deployment scanner. I've been banging my head since last night.

Entity bean:

package com.myco.workforce;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;

import javax.persistence.*;

import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;

@Entity
@Name("revModel")
@Table(name="RevenuePlanningModel", uniqueConstraints = {@UniqueConstraint(columnNames={"profitCenterId","startingQuarter","startingYear"})})
public class RevenuePlanningModel implements Serializable {
 private long id;
 private long sapProfilingId;
 private Date lastModified;
 private String profitCenterId;
 private short startingQuarter;
 private short startingYear;
 private long plannedPersonnelPriorYear = 41560l;
 private long plannedPersonnel1 = 10000l;
 private long plannedPersonnel2;
 private long plannedPersonnel3;
 private long plannedPersonnel4;
 private long plannedPersonnel5;
 private long plannedPersonnel6;
 private double revenuePriorYear = 12158412;
 private double revenue1;
 private double revenue2;
 private double revenue3;
 private double revenue4;
 private double revenue5;
 private double revenue6;

SFSB:

package com.myco.workforce;

import static javax.persistence.PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED;

import javax.ejb.Remove;
import javax.ejb.Stateful;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;

import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Begin;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Destroy;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.End;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.In;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Logger;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Out;
import org.jboss.seam.core.Events;
import org.jboss.seam.core.FacesMessages;
import org.jboss.seam.log.Log;

@Stateful
@Name("revPlan")
//@LoggedIn
public class RevenuePlanningAction implements RevenuePlanning {

 @PersistenceContext(type=EXTENDED)
 private EntityManager em;

 /*
 @In
 private User user;
 */

 @In(required=false) @Out
 private RevenuePlanningModel revModel;

 @In(create=true)
 private FacesMessages facesMessages;

 @In(create=true)
 private Events events;

 @Logger
 private Log log;

 @Begin
 public void getRevenuePlanningModel() {
 revModel = (RevenuePlanningModel) em.createQuery(
 "select r from revenueplanningmodel r where r.id=:id")
 .setParameter("id", 1)
 .getSingleResult();
 //revModel = em.find(RevenuePlanningModel.class, 1);
 }

 @End
 public String saveRevenuePlanningModel() {
 em.persist(revModel);
 }

 @End
 public String deleteRevenuePlanningModel() {
 return null;
 }

 @End
 public String cancel() {
 return null;
 }

xhtml page:

<div class="section">
 <h:form>
 <h:panelGrid columns="9">
 <h:outputLabel styleClass="entry">
 <h:outputText value=""/>
 </h:outputLabel>
 <h:outputLabel styleClass="entry">
 <h:outputText value="PY"/>
 </h:outputLabel>
 <h:outputLabel styleClass="entry">
 <h:outputText value="Q1"/>
 </h:outputLabel>
 <h:outputLabel styleClass="entry">
 <h:outputText value="Q2"/>
 </h:outputLabel>
<h:outputText value="Planned Personnel"/>
 <h:outputText value="#{revModel.plannedPersonnelPriorYear}">
 <f:convertNumber pattern="#,###,##0"/>
 </h:outputText>
 <h:inputText id="plannedPersonnel1" value="#{revModel.plannedPersonnel1}" required="true">
 <f:convertNumber pattern="#,###,##0"/>
 </h:inputText>
 <h:inputText id="plannedPersonnel2" value="#{revModel.plannedPersonnel2}" required="true">
 <f:convertNumber pattern="#,###,##0"/>
 </h:inputText>
<h:outputText value="Revenue"/>
 <h:inputText id="revenuePriorYear" value="#{revModel.revenuePriorYear}" required="true">
 <f:convertNumber pattern="#,###,##0"/>
 </h:inputText>
 <h:inputText id="revenue1" value="#{revModel.revenue1}" required="true">
 <f:convertNumber pattern="#,###,##0"/>
 </h:inputText>
 <h:inputText id="revenue2" value="#{revModel.revenue2}" required="true">
 <f:convertNumber pattern="#,###,##0"/>
 </h:inputText>
</h:panelGrid>
 <div class="entry errors">
 <h:messages globalOnly="true"/>
 </div>
 <div class="input">
 <h:commandButton value="Proceed" action="#{revPlan.getRevenuePlanningModel}" class="button"/> 
 <h:commandButton value="Save" action="#{revPlan.saveRevenuePlanningModel}" class="button"/>
 </div>
 </h:form>
 </div>

Note, I'm working off of the Booking app example, so my setup is sound and I'm using a lot of existing framework.

I appreciate the help.

John