'instance of the Entity' is a weird term to me.... Seam, when it was in CR, created an arbitrary value to represent the entity and made that number the value of the selectitem when it was rendered. The convertEntity tags takes that choice, grabs it's corresponding entity and injects that into whatever value you set it to. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125322#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...