I'm sorry, pretending to make the code clearer I removed a rich:modalPanel used for confirmation, and it turns out there was actually the error. as I posted before, the link was rendered by: <s:div rendered="#{editorEmployee.employee.id!=null}"> | <h:commandLink id="btnEliminar" value="delete" action="#{editorEmployee.delete}"/> | </s:div> | and the javascript code used to activate the link was: | function doDelete() { | window.location = document.getElementById('f:btnEliminar').href ; | } I couldn't found a way to trigger the link programmatically, directly assigning window.location apparently has not the same effect. By time constraints to get around of my lack of knowledge of that js api I inserted a confirmation page instead. Would be nice to know the correct way to use a rich:modalPanel to ask for confirmation, and then invoke h:commandLink, though. anyway really thanks for your time View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4113632#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...