Ladies and Gents, dudes dudettes.... and misc. ive got a bit of a problem with a hashmap in my bean private Map<String, String> documentMetaData = new HashMap<String, String>(); i want to be able to populate that from my JSF page, pseudo entry would be key=documentSearchKeywords Value=football, soccer, pitch, players,overpaid ive spent about 6 hours messing around with different solutions.... but im not happy with any... i know im missing something real obviouse. I dont really want to have to write a single utility bean to handly a crappy string then pass that to my action.... it feels crap... actually this maybe a JSF only question, in which case sorry lads.... as allways any help is greatly appreciated.... Night night people Vive le Seam.... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063259#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...