Assuming Parent and Child entities where Child has a reference to parent. | <h:selectOneMenu value="#{child.parent}"> | <s:selectItems value="#{allParents}" var="parent" label="#{parent.display}"/> | </h:selectOneMenu> | Tweak names as necessary. You'll need some converter in conjunction with this to convert an entity to a string and back. Look at the seam entity converter for this, I've not used it myself. HTH. Mike. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035600#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...