Bean is null after required error message

[itays100]

This is my page:


<h:form id="editManagerForm">
<s:decorate id="countryField" template="selectField.xhtml">
               <ui:define name="label">#{messages['text.fund.country']}</ui:define>
                 <a4j:region>                  
                            <h:selectOneMenu styleClass="clrBackG" label="Country" required="true" requiredMessage="#{messages['text.fund.country.required']}" value="#{management.managerCountry}" converter="countryConverter" id="countryId" >
                                   <a4j:support event="onchange" bypassUpdates="false" reRender="stateAreaId" limitToList="true"/>                                                                                                                                                                                                            
                                  <s:selectItems id="countryListId" value="#{appLists.countryItems}" noSelectionLabel="Please select..." var="country" label="#{country.label}" itemValue="#{country.value}"/>
                              </h:selectOneMenu>               
                    </a4j:region>
                    </s:decorate>
     
        <a4j:outputPanel id="stateAreaId">
        <s:div rendered="#{not empty management.managerStates}" id="stateDivId">     
                    <s:decorate id="stateField" template="selectField.xhtml">  
                   <ui:define name="label">#{messages['text.fund.state']}</ui:define>   
                                  <h:selectOneMenu styleClass="clrBackG" label="State" required="true" requiredMessage="#{messages['text.fund.state.required']}" value="#{management.managerState}" converter="stateConverter" id="stateId">              
                                      <s:selectItems id="stateListId" value="#{management.managerStates}" noSelectionLabel="Please select..." var="state" label="#{state.label}" itemValue="#{state.value}"/>
                               </h:selectOneMenu>     
                               </s:decorate>                        
                 
             </s:div>
        </a4j:outputPanel> 

<h:inputHidden value="#{fundManagement.fundManagerCountry}" converter="countryConverter"/>


<a4j:commandButton id="saveManagerButton" value="Save" action="#{management.saveManagerAction}" reRender="editManagerForm"/>     
  </h:form>


This is the seam component:
@Name("management")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class ManagmentAction
{ 
   @In
   private ApplicationLists appLists;
  
   @In private ManagerDaoHibernateImpl fundDao;
 
   @In(required=false)
   @Out(required=false)
   private Manager manager;
  
   public List<SelectItem> getManagerStates() {
          Country country = this.manager.getCountry();
          if (country == null || country.getStates().size()==0) {
               return new ArrayList<SelectItem>(0);
          }
          return appLists.getStates(country);
     }     
     
     @Begin
   public void savedManagerAction()
   {
          myDao.saveManager(this.manager);
   }

}

When I select country, the state is rendered with states. After that I click on submit.
There should be a messsage near the states select box indicate it required.
What I get is that the state list disappear and this is because the manager obj is null.
I tried to create the constructor and from there create a new manager instance but in this case I got
the constructor calls also after the "required" error message appear.

Any idea ?

[itays100]

I fixed this problem by adding propaganation
to the link that lead to this page.


<s:lilnk value="/editManager.xhtml" propaganation="begin"/>