Ok so I tried this a whole bunch of ways and this is the way I will follow from now on to save my self MUCH hassle. What I want is a VO based SelectOneItem that has an empty selected item which is selected by default. Also the value of the SelectItem must be custom and NOT index based. The Backing Bean private String selectedCode = null; public String getSelectedCode() { return selectedCode; } public void setSelectedCode(String selectedCode) { this.selectedCode = selectedCode; } The jspx page <af:selectOneChoice value="#{viewScope.yourBean.selectedCode}" label="#{viewBundle.JSPXNAME_LBL_YOURLABEL}" required="#{bindings.YourLovCode.hints.mandatory}" shortDesc="#{bindings.YourLovCode.hints.tooltip}" id="soc4" styleClass="colspec_medium" unselectedLabel="" valuePa...
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