Update object in bean without reload

On my page i have form with data from database. I want to implement, as default behaviour, writing all changes to db.
I found such example

<h:selectOneMenu value="#{bean.options}" onchange="submit()"
                        var="#{bean.options}" valueChangeListener="#{bean.changeListernMethod}">
                        <f:selectItem itemValue="1" itemLabel="option1" />
                        <f:selectItem itemValue="2" itemLabel="option2" />
                        <f:selectItem itemValue="3" itemLabel="option3" />
                    </h:selectOneMenu>

but it not call listener method and reload all page. I can't reload page on every inputText edit or menu selection change. Do you have idea how to achieve such behaviour? Update objects in bean without page reload.