Are you saying... that... I maintain a collection on a single initial rendering... I get away with it by loading my collection in setuprender... this works fine and I can see my hibernate entity on my display after the gallery is rendered.
On a subsequent event (lastPage)... your claim is that any reference to my collection variable will produce an NPE. I stepped thru the debugger and collection looks legit... probably because it hasnt been garbage collected yet. So what did I do? I instrumented the firstPage event handler (which seems to work) and I put the reference collection.size() in it ... and boom... that looks legit in debugger but the NPE happens anyway. So the collection is null theory I will buy on the basis that it hasnt been garbage collected yet. SOLUTION ? @Persist Gallery.JAVA @Persist @Property private Collection collection; Ok I ran this thru debugger and its fine. I am a happy tap'r... thanks guys didnt think i would get flanked by the garbage collector - cheers Ken