Issue With selectOneMenu ValueChangeListener Not Firing

[Pol Appan]

I have an issue with two selecOneMenu in my jsf page.

I have the following code where when I change value in first selectOneMenu, valuechangelistener fires and loads values in second selectOneMenu.

When I change a value in second selectOneMenu, its valuechangeListener is supposed to fire and populate values in other inputText. However when I change a value in second selectOneMenu, it's valuechangelistener is not firing. What could be the reason for this behavior?

My JSF version is 1.1 and page scope is request.

Any help is highly appreciable

Code

<h:selectOneMenu  id="empname" value="#{bean.selectedItemName}" 
           valueChangeListener="#{bean.nameChange}"
         onchange="submit()">
                      <f:selectItems value="#{bean.selectNames}" />      
                    </h:selectOneMenu>

 <h:selectOneMenu  id="dept" 
         value="#{bean.selectedItemDept}" 
         onchange="submit()"
         valueChangeListener="#{bean.deptChange}"
         >
                      <f:selectItems value="#{bean.selectDept}" />      
                    </h:selectOneMenu>

[Tim Holloway]

JSF Rule #1: Whenever things don't work right, promote the backing bean to session scope (or at least View scope, where applicable).

And just in case you were wondering, Rule #2 says "the more JSF-specific code in an class, the higher the probability it was improperly designed". But you're safe on that one for the moment.