Pete, What is your suggestion for writing a validator that validates the property against other properties values within the object (ie is this property > than another property in the object)? I thought maybe i could use hibernate validator's bean level validation but based on your last post it doesn't look like this option would work. Should such object level validation even be performed at the validation phase of the jsf lifecycle or is it better suited for another phase down the lifecycle? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4060070#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...