Just to explain in a hypothetical sense, if a bean has an @Create method and it in turn calls a method to fetch the date filed which has an @Future annotation, then the validation of date being a future date is omitted. | @Create | public void doInit(){ | | if (getDueDate()){ | | } | | } | | | @Future | @NotNull | public Date getDueDate() { | return dueDate; | } | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3978286#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...