Here is the code I'm using. It is basically an iterating list, that outputs a series of links (one for each in the collection), clicking on will open a document into a new browser window.

If the document collection is empty, then of course no links will be rendered - however at this point, I get the "com.sun.faces.saveStateFieldMarker" inside the panel.

If there are some documents in the collection then all is fine.

<h:form id="dealReport">
 <h:panelGrid columns="1" columnClasses="gridContent">
 <rich:panel style="width:607px">
 <rich:dataList value="#{documentBean.myDeals}" var="theDoc">
 <h:commandLink actionListener="#{documentBean.loadDoc}" target="_new">
 <f:param name="docId" value="#{theDoc.doc.attachments[0].documentid}"/>
 <f:param name="type" value="#{theDoc.doc.attachments[0].mimeType}"/>
 <f:param name="name" value="#{theDoc.doc.attachments[0].name}"/>
 <h:outputText value="#{theDoc.title}" styleClass="fontsizeDetail"/>
 </h:commandLink>
 <f:verbatim>
 <br/>
 </f:verbatim>
 <f:verbatim>
 <h:outputText escape="false" value="#{theDoc.fullSummary}" styleClass="fontsizeDetail"/>
 </f:verbatim>

 <f:verbatim>
 <br/>
 <br/>
 </f:verbatim>
 </rich:dataList>
 </rich:panel>
 </h:panelGrid>
</h:form>