Hello!
I've been trying to get a Datatable to display values from my table. I thought it was simple, but I'm certainly missing something here. All i see is a empty datatable.I'm able to see the contents of the ResultList obj, BTW here is my source code.

DataTablebean.java - Backing Bean

package com.org.MySeam;

import java.util.List;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Create;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.In;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.datamodel.DataModel;

@Name("dataforDistricts")
public class DataTableBean {
     
@In EntityManager entityManager;

@DataModel
private List<District> distlist=null;

    @Create
    public List<District> loadlist()
    {
     try{
             
       distlist=(List<District>)entityManager.createQuery(" from District").getResultList();
        }
        catch(Exception e){
             System.out.println("Exception..." + e);
             e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return distlist;
    }

    public List<District> getDistlist() {
         return distlist;
    }

   public void setDistlist(List<District> distlist) {      
       this.distlist=distlist;
       
   }
}

District.java

package com.org.MySeam;

import static org.jboss.seam.ScopeType.SESSION;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.List;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
...........


@Entity
@Name("district")
@Scope(SESSION)
@Table(name="districts")

public class District implements Serializable
{
     @In EntityManager entityManager;
  
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
   private String distname;
   private String distname_mal;
   private String distcode;
  
   public District(String distname, String distcode, String distname_mal)
   { 
      this.distname = distname;
      this.distname_mal = distname_mal;
      this.distcode = distcode;
   }
   
  
  
   @NotNull
   public String getdistName()
   {
           return distname;
   }
   
   @Id@NotNull @Length(min=3, max=3)
   public String getdistCode()
   {
      
      return distcode;
   }
   
   @NotNull
   public String getdistName_mal()
   {
      return distname_mal;
   }
   
   public void setdistName(String distname)
   {
        
      this.distname = distname;
   }
   
   public void setdistName_mal(String distname_mal)
   {
        
      this.distname_mal = distname_mal;
   }
   
   public void setdistCode(String distcode)
   {
      this.distcode = distcode;
   }
     
   @Override
   public String toString() 
   {
      return "District(" + distname + " "+distname_mal+" "+distcode+")";
   } 
 
}

addDistricts.xhtml

           <rich:panel>
                  <f:facet name="header">
                      <h:outputText value="District Details"/>
                  </f:facet>                  
           <rich:dataTable 
           cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" 
           width="700" border="0" var="items" value="#{dataforDistricts.distlist}" style=" width : 1083px;" align="center">
                
                    <f:facet name="header">
                        <rich:columnGroup>
 <rich:column colspan="3">
                                <h:outputText value="DISTRICT INFORMATION" />
                            </rich:column>
                            
                            <rich:column breakBefore="true">
                           
                                <h:outputText value="#{items.distCode}"></h:outputText>
                            </rich:column>
                            <rich:column>
                          
                                <h:outputText value="#{items.distName}"></h:outputText>
                            </rich:column>
                            <rich:column>
                           
                              <h:outputText value="#{items.distName_mal}"></h:outputText>
                            </rich:column>
                        </rich:columnGroup>
                    </f:facet>
                </rich:dataTable>
                  </rich:panel>
.....

faces-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">
 <managed-bean>
  <managed-bean-name>dataforDistricts</managed-bean-name>
  <managed-bean-class>com.org.MySeam.DataTableBean</managed-bean-class>
  <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>
 <application>
  <view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>
  <locale-config>
   <default-locale>en</default-locale>
   <supported-locale>bg</supported-locale>
   <supported-locale>de</supported-locale>
   <supported-locale>en</supported-locale>
   <supported-locale>fr</supported-locale>
   <supported-locale>it</supported-locale>
   <supported-locale>tr</supported-locale>
  </locale-config>
 </application>
</faces-config>