[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - help with this entity been updated implicitly

Hello everybody, I have this use case: an item is selected from a list, the edit page for that item is shown, if the save action is invoked some validation is done inside that same method, only if everything is ok I call persist, otherwise the same edit page is redisplayed. Everything goes fine except one thing: even if validation fails (so I don't call persist) the entity is been updated, why? how? where? I reproduce some code: @Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION) | @Name("courseEditor") | @Restrict("#{identity.loggedIn and s:hasRole('Administrator')}") | public class CourseEditorAction { | | @Begin(nested=true) | public void select(Course selectedCourse) { | course = entityManager.merge(selectedCourse); | } | | public void save() { | if(course.getStartDate()!=null && course.getFinishDate()!=null && | course.getStartDate().compareTo(course.getFinishDate())>=0) { | facesMessages.addToControl("finishDate","must be posterior to start date") ; | ok = false ; | } | else { | sede = entityManager.merge(sede) ; | if(course.getId()==null) | //my way to update parent collection of courses (only if course is new) | sede.getCourses().add(course) ; | entityManager.persist(course); | facesMessages.add("Course saved successfully"); | //I only finish conversation in case the edition use case finish | Conversation.instance().end() ; | ok = true; | } | } | | @End | public void cancel() {} | | public boolean isOk() { | return ok ; | } | } <page view-id="/admin/courseEditor.xhtml"> | <navigation from-action="#{courseEditor.save}"> | <rule if="#{courseEditor.ok}"> | <redirect view-id="/admin/sedeEditor.xhtml"/> | </rule> | <rule if="#{not courseEditor.ok}"> | <redirect view-id="/admin/courseEditor.xhtml"/> | </rule> | </navigation> | <navigation from-action="#{courseEditor.cancel}"> | <redirect view-id="/admin/sedeEditor.xhtml"/> | </navigation> | | </page> if finish date value is before start date, the page is redisplayed, the message describing the incorrect input is shown, but at that moment the course already has been updated :S I though maybe select method was been called every time the page is redisplayed and since there is a merge that was causing the update, but no: select method is called (makes sense) only first time. so the updating is invoked somewhere else... any help is much appreciated View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4110994#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...