Hi I am trying to save to database the value selected from list but it is saving it as object of selectItem my xhtml code is | <h:selectOneMenu id="carList" value="#{carBean.carCategory}"> | <s:selectItems var="carCategory" value="#{carDetail.carCategoryList}" | label="#{carCategory.label}" noSelectionLabel="Select Car Category..."/> | </h:selectOneMenu> and my list is | public List<SelectItem> carCategoryList() | { | get values for car list from database such as Audi, BMW etc | } | it works fine till populating list and retriving data from database as well but in database i want to store it as string "Audi" instead it saves it as object string javax.faces.model.SelectItem@15817ba can any one help me how can i store it as an actual string?? Thanks Panky View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4124258#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...