I figured out what the problem was. I wasn't surrounding the h:inputText tag with the s:validateAll tag. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4005367#4005367 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4005367