Thanks to you two. I was pondering to fall back to hibernate specific api to be able to call evict() for a single entity instance. Probably the suggestion Jacob made is cleaner. I just have to learn and understand where and how to start/end my conversation. For now I have a third solution working: I marked my Test button as immediate="false" and for both the script field and the test value input field I used binding attribute to be able to get the submitted value directly from the component. Then I do FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().renderResponse(); to skip the remaining phases. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4089060#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...