Action in bean is never triggered/called from jsf page

One plus side of the compiled languages would be telling us every error during/after compilation which would save a lot time from chicanery. But, in JSF you may get unexpected error which is a silent.

The page would run and the action linked to, say command button or command link, may not be triggered.

If you got that, just check your form fields – especially if you are working with datatable, make sure all the conversion and validations are working as expected. If the validation/conversion is not working properly, then the framework would exit before reaching the backend.

One way to troubleshoot this would be to have <h:messages /> with appropriate attributes, like adding showDetail=”false” showSummary=”true”, on your form – that, definitely, would help you to debug the problem.