You are probably using an Extended Persistet Context. If you really need it try making the country field (the one you edit) a String property of some backing bean and dont use the Entity property directly. If the user clicks to save the country set the Entity property with the new value and if he clicks cancel just do nothing but redirect to the appropiate view. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125270#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...