Here my snippet that working successfully... The page is where user can view ,add,delete and edit the data in the same page. My Managed bean public class MyBean { private List myDataList ; private HtmlDataTable myDataTable ; //bind private MyData myDataItem = new MyData (); private boolean editMode = false ; private String status = "" ; private MyDataAccess da = new MyDataAccess (); /** Creates a new instance of MyBean */ public MyBean () { loadMyDataList (); } public void loadMyDataList (){ //my dao thing try { myDataList = da . retrieveNationalityList (); } catch ( Exception ex ) { System . out . println ( "Something error while loadMyDataList..." ); ex . printStackTrace (); } } public List getMyDataList () { if ( FacesContext . getCurrentInstance (). getRenderResponse ()){ loadMyDataList (); } return myDataList ; } public void setMyDataList ( List myDataList ) { this . myDataList = myDataLi