Partial refresh (PR) works only if you enable it on the page. You can enable it from the Admin portal or by deploying a deployment with the PR property set to true. If enabled it will work on user interaction through links generated from the RenderResponse with the methods createRenderURL (for use with A tag ) and createActionURL (for FORM's action ). If you use JSF then your form's action is auto generated by the framework and this means that commandLink and commandButton will cause a full page refresh. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4153195#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...