By the way, I think it's pretty slick that you can use Seam components as validators like that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4059711#4059711 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4059711