What's wrong with Seam's solution? <h:selectOneMenu value="#{sysUsersHome.instance.tbCompany}" required="true"> | <s:selectItems value="#{companies}" var="company" label="#{company.descr}" noSelectionLabel="Select..." hideNoSelectionLabel="true"/> | <s:convertEntity /> | </h:selectOneMenu> convertEntity looks for an entity's @Id field as the option id and the label comes from selectItem.label. Very flexible and no need to adhere to getId() and getName() conventions. The noSelectionLabel functionality is also very handy. Best Regards, Chris. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050677#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...