As no one could aswer this I totally re-designed the site. Not its broken down into lots of steps so that that there are lots of button presses that allow me to configure the next step. Seems a real issue that you cant just force a page submit because I want to redisplaythe page. I suppose Ajax/IceFaces/etc. isthe answer for this though. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4037360#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...