Thanks, that did it! I was under the impression that I had to use the entityConverter since the backing data weren't SelectItems, but it seems that the entityConverter (and the SMPC to avoid LIE:s) are only required when actually inserting an entity? That pretty much moves my SelectItem usage into the legacy-hierarchy, I won't miss it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4127679#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...