Sorry, I dint understand the request clearly. Anyway, you can configure Seam to use the same ValidatorMessages.properties by configurng the components.xml for the "resourceBundle" component and specifying the "bundleName" with ValidatorMessages. That way, youd only have one bundle file for both Seam and Hibernate. Something like this is components.xml ValidatorMessages View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3968467#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...