The first call to the method occurs to rebuild the JSF tree, the input fields aren't applied to the model after this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4115063#4115063 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4115063