I keep having to put all the getters and setters into my beans and not use @Out as I need the bean to have its @Create run (which populates the variables I am Outjecting)...

Basically: Outjecting variables means that you don't have the @Create run. for the bean that holds them

Anyone any idea how to get round this?

e.g.

...
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
@Stateful
@Name("resourceAllocationController")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class ResourceAllocationControllerImpl implements ResourceAllocationController, Serializable {
...

 @Out
 private List<Day> varX;

...

 @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED)
 @Create
 public void init() {
 //set varX up
 }

<rich:dataTable var="eachDayForIndoorArena"
 value="#{resourceAllocationController.varX}"
 rendered="#{not empty resourceAllocationController.varX}">

<rich:dataTable var="eachDayForIndoorArena"
 value="#{varX}"
 rendered="#{not empty varX}">