anonymous wrote : #{sel.label} - can be evaluted because this is all happening inside ui:repeat and sel is an item from the collection returned by localeSelector.supportedLocales No it is not, this is the source of your whole misunderstanding. It is a method binding. It is never evaluated while the page is being rendered. anonymous wrote : I do not want sel.value evaluated on post back. Sorry, thats what a method binding is. This is basic JSF behavior. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4067581#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...