I had almost exactly the same problem while trying to get a password changing UI working. It would work the first time and lose its optimism the second time. I finally noticed while comparing against your code that I had: entityManager.merge(currentUser); instead of: currentUser = entityManager.merge(currentUser); With that change it started working and I started backing out all the other things I had tried to get it back to the simplest version. I subsequently discovered that I needed: @In @Out(scope=SESSION) | private User currentUser; to get the changes all the way back into the shared instance living in the session context. I did not previously know that @Out will not automatically outject back to the context @In injected from. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044546#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...