I have changed the seam.properties so that it uses my own resource bundle for messages: resourceBundle.bundleName=myOwnMsg this works good, now when I have validation annotations in my entity bean eg. @Pattern(regex="[A-Za-z0-9]+") it actually uses my own message so I know it's reading the right resource bundle. Now I want a new message @Pattern(regex="[A-Za-z0-9]+", message="{someErrorMsg}") this causes an error saying that it cannot find it in the resource bundle. Any idea anyone? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3957191#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...