That's why I use booleanconverters in JSF and put true/false in there. Works for me... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4201990#4201990 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4201990