Use single p:ajax to execute multiple actions - ajax

Question

I have a p:selectOneMenu in my application, and when the selection takes place I need to call multiple back-end methods from different managed beans in order to perform different actions.
XHTML code:
<p:selectOneMenu id="selectMenu" value="#{userBean.selectedSite}"
converter="siteConverter" style="width:150px">
<p:ajax event="change" listener="#{bean2.changeSite}"
render="#form :comp1 :comp2 :comp3 :comp4" />
<f:selectItems value="#{userBean.sites}" var="site"
itemValue="#{site}" itemLabel="#{site.description}" />
<p:ajax event="change" listener="#{bean1.reset}"
update="#form :comp1 :comp2 :comp3 :comp4" />
</p:selectOneMenu>
Managed bean 1:
#ManagedBean(name="bean1")
#ViewScoped
public class Bean1 implements Serializable {
// ...
public void reset() {
loadEvents();
resetEvent();
}
}
Managed bean 2:
#ManagedBean(name="bean2")
#SessionScoped
public class Bean2 implements Serializable {
// ...
public void changeSite() {
FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
Bean1 bean = (Bean1) context.getApplication().evaluateExpressionGet(context, "#{bean1}", Bean1.class);
reload();
bean.loadEvents();
}
}
If, instead of using two different p:ajax components, I use a single p:ajax that calls a single method from Bean1, the page components listed under "update" are not correctly updated.
XHTML:
<p:ajax event="change" listener="#{bean1.singleMethod}"
update="#form :comp1 :comp2 :comp3 :comp4" />
Managed bean 1:
#ManagedBean(name="bean1")
#ViewScoped
public class Bean1 implements Serializable {
// ...
public void () singleMethod() {
FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
Bean2 bean = (Bean2) context.getApplication().evaluateExpressionGet(context, "#{bean2}", Bean2.class);
bean2.changeSite();
reset();
}
}
Changing the selected values updates the server side objects, but the page is not updated: if I press F5, the page shows the actual situation.

Answer 1

Moving the single global method to the session scoped bean (Bean2) does the job.