I think we still have some confusion here: JSF does 1) RESTORE VIEW 2) APPLY REQUEST VALUES (update the JSF component instances with the submitted values - localValue on EditableValueHolder) (no affect on your backing beans here) 3) PROCESS VALIDATIONS - run converters, then validators (this is the *only* point at which s:convertEntity is invoked) 4) UPDATE MODEL 5) INVOKE APPLICATION - if an exception is thrown anywhere, then further stages are aborted. Transactions (JTA) and JSF know nothing about each other - so whether the transaction rolls back or not has no effect on updating the model. Anyway, I have never seen the effect you describe. Can you try doing this without all the ui:decorate stuff (just put the components on the page) and see if you still observer the same effect? If you do, please submit a runnable, simple example of this to JIRA and I'll take a look (without the templating stuff) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4052909#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...