"hamtho2" wrote : | By the way: I think that would be a great benefit for seam to have this component, so why don´t you make it a core-feature? I think it´s a very common and important thing to display user-friendly validation-messages. You should definately think about it | Thomas If you need, JSF RI (1.2) has already the requiredMessage attribute... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4006356#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...