First and foremost, thanks for any assistance and advice! I have created a drop down box as below: | <h:selectOneMenu id="orgTypeSelect" value="#{addStrainCtrl.organism}" required="true"> | <s:selectItems value="#{organismTypes.resultList}" var="organismType" label="#{organismType.description}" noSelectionLabel="Please Select..." /> | <s:convertEntity /> | </h:selectOneMenu> | However, I realise if there is any errors during the processing of the submitted form and the user is re-directed to the same form for a chance to correct their "mistakes", the value they selected in the drop down box is reset to "Please Select...". This behaviour is not happening for input text box using the <h:inputText> tag though. I cracked my brain for a few days now trying to figure out the missing ingredient...it shouldn't be something extremely difficult, i hope ;-) Appreciate any help and thanks! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4113349#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...