Thanks Jim. This helps a lot - it confirms what I understood, but thought that I didn't and you provided me with a critical bit of information (SelectOneMenu doesn't actually set a selection on the SelectItems).
I thought I was 'missing a trick' - the first approach seems sufficient for most purposes. My only concern here is that it introduces 'binding and conversion' code into my action - which doesn't feel like business logic. I can give the second approach a go this weekend also - I think that it will work and it gives me a chance to learn more about annotations. I do wonder if there is a third attack on this problem, which is a not annotation based at all. A JSF component - essentially a UIDataModel based component that renders an HTML Select and sets the selected state on the appropriate item. It would be a single action element (tag) that takes DataModel EL expression and another EL expression that resolves the Label. It could do more than this (multi value binding ?). Maybe this is another item for my weekend. This may obviate the need for @SelectItems and @SelectItemsSelection - allowing @DataModel and @DataModelSelection to work. Thanks again, View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3952994#3952994 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3952994 Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list JBoss-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
