you have to make them not NotNull on the model then. Would be nice if we had the option to specify @NotNull(condition="#{myEl}") on the domain and have hibernate/jpa/ejb3 not generate a notNull in the database. That way we can easily make a difference to 'temporary save the data' or realy finish the form (jBPM has functionality for this) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4016973#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...