@denis-karpov: You mean, something like this does fail?: template (common stuff like the form or action buttons) | <h:form> | <s:validateAll> | <ui:insert name="stuffToEdit" /> | <... save, delete and cancel button.... > | </s:validateAll> | </h:form> | concrete input fields | <ui:define name="stuffToEdit"> | <h:inputText....> | .... | </ui:define> | I can only say that this works perfectly for me. I just tested it with an org.hibernate.validator.Pattern annotation on an Entity bean. And the annotated property is correctly marked as invalid during process_validations phase :). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3971222#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...