Unfortunately there are many places this could go wrong. I suggest putting a breakpoint in BasicEntityConverter.getAsObject() and see whether this method is even being called. Otherwise, it's the standard techniques of stripping out code until it works It looks like it was at least getting called when you had ajax enabled so you shouldn't be far off. I suspect an exception is getting caught somewhere, hopefullya breakpoint will show you where. Let me know how you get on. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4006878#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...