converter was not being scanned by seam. Once I got that going everything works as expected...It almost seems like you had similar problem from your earlier posts. Also, you don't have to register the converter in the faces config as suggested in earlier post (that's the whole point of using the Converter annotation). And I'm using seam 1.2.1.GA. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4096156#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...