JSF 1 Immediate property

Immediate = true , it will no proceed to Validations phase. It suit for Cancel button that you don't want any validation(require=true etc.) on the page but it will reach to action of Cancel button. Since those parameters of inputText do not go through validation phase, it also will not update to your variable in backing bean. There is a workaround solution to retrieve those values.

hyperlink immediate = true. that only accepts values from a specific control (the immediate property for all of these components would be true).