anonymous wrote : I'm not using s:validate or s:validateAll, which I thought was what triggered this behavior. Any suggestions? Is this how it is supposed to be? No, its not. Validation is triggered in two places with Seam. (1) s:validate(All), (2) by hibernate when persisting an entity. Are you sure you don't have any validators being applied e.g. in s:decorate templates? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121610#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...