"jazir1979" wrote : From my understanding, you need s:validate to trigger hibernate validator at the JSF level. Otherwise, the validations only trigger when you try to persist an entity? I could be wrong, however. No, you are completely correct. Don't use s:validate/s:validateAll in your search form, and don't try to persist the entity you are using to hold your search data and it won't be validated. And yes, I found I normally had to do @Name("exampleFoo") | public class ExampleFoo extends Foo { | | private Date startOfDateRange; | private Date endOfDateRange; | ... | when using example entities for searching - you get both the fields from the entities for basic fields and can add extras. I want to get a tutorial into the docs at some point - "Working with your seam-gen'd app" which should include stuff like this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4114420#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...