I think the 1 approach it is ok. I have working something similar: | <ice:selectManyCheckbox value="#{userManager.userRoles}" id="userRoles"> | <s:selectItems value="#{roleList.resultList}" var="role" label="#{messages[role.description]}"/> | </ice:selectManyCheckbox> | As you can see I get the property value for role.description on the fly using the messages. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4029279#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...