I have a newbie problem.

I am invoking a method (doExperimentalSearch) in a bean (search) from a form. After the method call completes the result (like resultCount) is displayed in a xhtml (searchResults.xhtml). Now my problem is that search.getResultCount() is getting called on a different object than the search.doExperimentalSearch() and all my searchResults are getting lost. Please help.

<h:form id="searchParams" name="searchParams" style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">
  <h:inputHidden id="searchType" value="#{search.selectedSearchType}"/>
  <h:inputHidden id="factorId" value="#{cexpEntry.key.id}"/>
  <h:commandLink value="#{cexpEntry.key.name} (#{cexpEntry.value})" action="#{search.doExperimentalFactorSearch}"/>
</h:form>

@Stateful
@Name("search")
@Conversational
public class SearchAction implements Search, Serializable {
...
     @Begin(join = true)
     public String doExperimentalFactorSearch() {
          factorId = Long.parseLong(facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap().get("factorId").toString());
          experimentalFactorsSelected=em.createQuery(...).getResultList();

          isSimple = false;
          getResultCount();
          currentPage = 0;
          updateResults();

          return "searchResults";
     }
...
}