Well, if you have a SMPC (as is usually best), you could use a | public List<Category> getAllCategoriesParentList() { | return entityManager.createQuery("from Category").getResultList(); | } | (note, code from memory, not guaranteed to compile, but something like that) and then just use a | <h:selectOneMenu value="#{category.parentCategory}"> | <s:selectItems value="#{categoryController.allCategoriesParentList}"/> | <s:convertEntity/> | </h:select> | [/code> | | and be sure to override equals() and hashCode() for your entity. And to have a messages tag to catch validation errors. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121678#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...