Hi !

I have the following code:

A bean that lists all Patients

`@Stateful
@Scope(SESSION)
@Name("viewPatientsHistory")
public class ViewPatientsHistoryAction implements ViewPatientsHistory {
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       @DataModel
        private List<PatientHistory> patientsHistory;

        @DataModelSelection("patientsHistory")
        private PatientHistory selectedPatientHistory;

@Factory("patientsHistory")
        public void findPatientsHistory() {
                patientsHistory = em.createQuery("select p from PatientHistory p").getResultList();
}


`

A facelet that among other has this code:

`<ice:dataTable id="patients" value="#{patientsHistory}" var="patH" rows="25" sortColumn="#{viewPatientsHistory.sortColumnName}" sortAscending="#{viewPatientsHistory.ascending}">
                                                       
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<ice:commandButton  value="View Details" action="#{patientHistoryView.viewPatientHistory(patH)}"/>       
`

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And another bean


`
@Stateless
@Scope(PAGE)
@Name("patientHistoryView")
public class PatientHistoryViewAction implements PatientHistoryView {

        @In(create = true)
        private PatientHistory patientHistory;
       
        @PersistenceContext
        EntityManager em;

        //the most important place
        public void viewPatientHistory(PatientHistory patHist) {
                em.merge(patHist);
                this.patientHistory = patHist;
                System.out.println(patientHistory.getBirth());
                System.out.println(patientHistory.getId());
        }
`

And when method viewPatientHistory is called object patientHistory is OK, it's OK inside the method body, but as soon as it leaves method body object is cleared, if not for   |@In(create = true)|  I would get a null pointer exception, but since this annotation is here I get jus an empty object.

Any ideas ??