That would probably work. I also realized that I could just not throw a validation exception (Found out it isn't required, you can add the message to the faces context directly instead) also. In the end I decided to go with less functionality to save time and just put the code in the action method. Not as nice, but easy to code. Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963046#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...