I modify a little bit the Message example of Seam reference. This is the messages.xhtml:

<h:form>
    <h:outputText value="No messages to display" rendered="#{messages.rowCount == 0}"/>
    <h:dataTable value="#{messages}" rendered="#{messages.rowCount > 0}" var="message">
        <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText value="Read" /></f:facet>
            <h:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{message.read}" valueChangeListener="#{messageManager.markMessage}"/>
        </h:column>
        <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText value="Title" /></f:facet>
            <h:commandLink value="#{message.title}" action="#{messageManager.select}"/>
        </h:column>
        <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText value="Date/Time" /></f:facet>
            <h:outputText value="#{message.datetime}">
                <f:convertDateTime type="both" dateStyle="medium" timeStyle="short"/>
            </h:outputText>
        </h:column>
        <h:column>
            <h:commandButton value="Delete" action="#{messageManager.delete}"/>
        </h:column>
    </h:dataTable>
    <h3><h:outputText value="#{message.title}" /></h3>
    <h:outputText value="#{message.text}"/>
</h:form>

I added a valueChangeListener method to the check boxes. In the MessagesManageBean, I added a method to catch the valueChangeListener event.

@Stateful
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
@Name("messageManager")
public class MessageManagerBean implements Serializable, MessageManager {
    private final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

    @DataModel
    private List<Message> messages;

    @DataModelSelection
    @Out(required = false)
    private Message message;

    @PersistenceContext(type = PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED)
    private EntityManager entityManager;

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Factory("messages")
    public void findMessage() {
        messages = entityManager.createQuery("select m from Message m order by m.datetime desc")
                .getResultList();
    }

    @Override
    public void select() {
        message.setRead(true);
    }

    @Override
    public void delete() {
        messages.remove(message);
        entityManager.remove(message);
        message = null;
    }

    @Override
    public void markMessage(ValueChangeEvent event) {
        log.debug(new StringBuilder("Check if Seam intercepts the valueChangeListener:\n")
                .append("Old value: ").append(defaultIfNull(event.getOldValue(), "null")).append("--> new value")
                .append(defaultIfNull(event.getNewValue(), "null")).append('\n').append("Message: ")
                .append(defaultIfNull(message, "no message title because the message is null")));
    }

    @Override
    @Remove
    public void destroy() {
    }
}

I noticed that the markMessage wasn't called although there's no exception!