I have a selectOneMenu where selectItems come from a WebService which returns a collection of a simple POJO class.It has an identifier,and some fields,but since it is not managed by any EntityManager or HibernateSession I can not use s:convertEntity. I think this is the case you didn't come accross pete and dan :/ I have to convert that collection to a List and define an Integer in the backing bean which stores the selected index or write a converter for that class. (But I have more than one selectOneMenu with this case and all uses different POJOs). Either way,selectitem or converter,does not seem right to me,because within my tidy code,thanks to seam, they look ugly. On http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1801, pete says:"I've implemented something similar: override and extend the org.jboss.seam.ui.entityIdentiferStore component implementing the get and put methods. You can then use e.g. a HashMap, and using the identifier and entity arguements to put, store it under whatever key you like". I am working on this without success. pete can you please show a sample or at least give more info on this subject? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4106810#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...