About point 1: it's not on the roadmap for seam 2.0.1.GA, see http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin... About point 2: yes some time you want dropdown list. IMO, the presence of a foreign key is not a good criterion. I already customerized my version of seam-gen for enumeration: all of them are shown as dropdown list by default. An other good candidate would be the embedded attribute. About many-to-one association: there is no clear default choice. Each case is specific. I have no clear idea how to specify it: annotation, hibernate mapping ...? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4068775#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...