The workaround is a hack. It involves putting an action listener on the Cancel button:           <ice:commandButton actionListener="#{PortalUserList.rowPanelGroupCancelButtonListener}" immediate="true" styleClass="portlet-form-button" value="#{DataTableMsgs.keyValues['Cancel']}"/> Here is the listener:     public void rowPanelGroupCancelButtonListener(ActionEvent actionEvent)     {         this.rowPanelGroupVisible = false;         JSFUtils.clearSubmittedFormValues(JSFUtils.getForm(actionEvent.getComponent()));     } And here is the clearSubmittedFormValues() static methods from my JSFUtils class:     /**      * This method (along with its private, recursive counterpart) is more or less a hack to try and fix a problem that      * manifests itself with ICEfaces and <ice:commandButton> components with immediate="true". The folks at ICEsoft      * need to make this be part of their partial-submit aspect of the JSF lifecycle.      */     public static void clearSubmittedFormValues(UIForm uiForm)     {         clearSubittedFormValuesRecurse(uiForm);     }     private static void clearSubittedFormValuesRecurse(UIComponent uiComponent)     {         if (uiComponent instanceof UIInput)         {             UIInput uiInput = (UIInput) uiComponent;             uiInput.setSubmittedValue(null);         }         List childList = uiComponent.getChildren();         if (childList != null)         {             Iterator iterator = childList.iterator();             while (iterator.hasNext())             {                 clearSubittedFormValuesRecurse((UIComponent) iterator.next());             }         }     }