rerendering the section should work, although I'm not sure partial submit on the captcha is the way to go. You'll probably want to track failed attempts to lock out brute force style attacks (which don't make sense mathematically in this situation, but bots aren't always that clever). Anyhow, that's just my opinion. I leave the captcha as part of the final form submission. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4097549#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...