This looks odd to me: | <to-view-id>/view/manage/cc_distribution.xhtml</to-view-id> | If you are following the normal seam structure then your view id would simply be "/manage/cc_distribution.xhtml". Do you really have a view directory inside of your WAR? Assuming you don't, I'd expect you to see a redirect failure. Instead you are being redirected back to the same page. That sounds more like a validation error to me. Are you sure updateDistributionList() is even being called? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3996193#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...