can you provide a bit more on how that value is used? I do know that Seam 2.0 is using a new strategy for annotated validation, which uses the setter on an EL Expression. This works great-- but if your value is being assigned where a setter occurs (ie ValueHolder component), then EL is hardwired to return that error on a choice statement. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4064342#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...