Let me clarify few things First, @Local is used to mark your local interface and @Entity is used to mark an implementation of the interface. So using them together does not make much sense. Second, SelectItem is a model that holds the state of a single item of a JSF component. It is meant for JSF so do not use it for your entity bean. I would suggest that you get a list of the items you want to present and pass them to the "value" attribute of selectItems tag. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3964577#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...