ValueChangeListener not being invoked upon submit - jsf

Question

My valuechangelistener method is not being called as I expected. I have a h:selectOneRadio component (below) and I'm expecting the valueChangeListener to be called when I click the add button, but only the add method is getting invoked, the setSelectedItem method is completely ignored. What am I missing? Note the javascript dataTableSelectOneRadio is executing fine.
Here is the .xhtml
h:panelGrid
Select Client to Associate with Appointment
<h:dataTable id="addClient" styleClass="dataTable"
value="#{AddEntryMB.clientValues}" var="c" binding="#{AddEntryMB.dataTable}" >
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">Select</f:facet>
<h:selectOneRadio valueChangeListener="#{AddEntryMB.setSelectedItem}"
immediate="true" onchange="dataTableSelectOneRadio(this);">
<f:selectItem itemValue="null" />
</h:selectOneRadio>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">Last Name</f:facet>
#{c.lastName}
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
</h:panelGrid>
<h:panelGroup>
<h:commandButton action="#{AddEntryMB.add}" value="add" />
<h:commandButton action="cancel" value="cancel" immediate="true"/>
</h:panelGroup>
And here is the backing bean.
#ManagedBean(name="AddEntryMB")
#ViewScoped
public class AddEntryMB implements Serializable {
private int rowIndex;
private int idValue;
private transient HtmlDataTable dataTable;
public void setSelectedItem(ValueChangeEvent event) {
rowIndex = dataTable.getRowIndex();
}
public void add()
{
DefaultScheduleEntry entry = new DefaultScheduleEntry();
entry.setId(RandomStringUtils.randomNumeric(32));
entry.setStartTime(from);
entry.setEndTime(until);
entry.setTitle(title);
entry.setSubtitle(location);
entry.setDescription(comments);
}

Answer 1

The view scoped bean will be recreated during every RESTORE_VIEW phase when you bind a component by binding to a property of the view scoped bean. This is known as JSF issue 1492 and fixed for the upcoming JSF 2.2.
In this particular case, you'd better remove binding="#{AddEntryMB.dataTable}" and grab the current var="c" from the EL context.
public void setSelectedItem(ValueChangeEvent event) {
FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
DefaultScheduleEntry c = context.getApplication().evaluateExpressionGet(context, "#{c}", DefaultScheduleEntry.class);
// ...
}