Getting closer on this. Narrowed it down to the fact that it doesn't matter what I put for the action on the submit button, it just won't call my EJB's create method. Here is what I would expect to work: | <h:commandButton type="submit" value="#{msg.Create}" action="#{personEditor.create}" rendered="#{personEditor.new}"/> | The create method never gets called. Just for grins, I tried this: | <h:commandButton type="submit" value="#{msg.Create}" action="#{personEditor.poo}" rendered="#{personEditor.new}"/> | Putting this in did NOT throw any exceptions are cause any problems. In fact, it behaved the exact same way as the personEditor.create. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979866#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...