Similar behavior and Classes

See the following link for the EnumListConverter Class that is responsible for this:-

http://shrubbery.mynetgear.net/wiki/Select_lists_with_Seam

Can our menu renderer be changed to accept Object rather than String?

after creating a few samples and tracing them through, the MenuRenderer is indeed the problem as it is designed to only return a single string that can possibly be used with validator/converter.
when using <s:selectItem> with a label=" " var=" " and value=" " the value is always returned null (this can't be rendered which is why the box is always empty when you use this s component with <h:selectOneMenu>, <h:selectManyListbox> or it's ice equivalents.

The major benefit of the<s:selectItem> is that you don't have to write a converter. You can actually use an entity object, element from a datamodel or a list of objects and it will let you return a value that is different from the label (not limited to strings).

If we are just worried about Seam, we can detect if we have a seam environment and whether the s:selectItem is being used and return the object value as well as label....or we could create a similar renderer that we would use for this component.....What do you guys think?

Adnan....basically you don't even need seam to test <s:selectItems> Check out this url where the guys who developed it have put it in another jar that you can add to a standard ICEfaces application (put on a jsp page) and test there. A simple test case is also on the web site. Once it works for this, we can test further with Seam.

http://jsf-comp.sourceforge.net/components/easysi/index.html

After testing it came across that the s:selectItems works fine with the ICEfaces. The problem was with the hibernate, which was returning an empty list. As this bug is not related to s:selectItems so I am closing this bug.

Actually the problem lies with the <s:decorate tag as the hibernate works properly (with the s:selectItems tag) when you comment out the <s:decorate template=" ....

Am waiting for the other changes for Facelet View Handler (ICE-1710 and 1711) to see if this is fixed with it.

There was a problem with the Seam "ui" example working with ICEfaces, where the colour selection in the s:selectItems page wouldn't work.

The following block of code was having problems because MenuRenderer was not properly converting values in a List, like is was in an array:

<h:selectManyListbox ...>
<s:selectItems .../>
<s:convertEntity />
</h:selectManyListbox ...>

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icefaces\core\src\com\icesoft\faces\renderkit\dom_html_basic\MenuRenderer.java