Okay, this looks like some sort of incompatibility with <s:selectItems> and <ec:entityConverter>. The NoSelectionConverter is effectively overriding the EntityConverter in the ConverterChain. I was able to work around the problem by using my own bean that generates SelectIems with labels and converts the select item values back into the entity objects (similar to http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SelectItems). But... this isn't as nice as the EntityConverter, IMO. Should I not be using EntityConverter? Is this a known issue? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4024017#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...