best practices with Seam and presentation logic

[asookazian]

So I have a use case where I need to reset the selected value of the h:selectOneMenu. I am using the following code to tracke the old and new values:

<h:form id="peerForm">
 <h:selectOneMenu id="selectPeer" value="#{peerAction.employeeId}" valueChangeListener="#{peerAction.processValueChange}">
 <a4j:support event="onchange"
 onchange="Richfaces.showModalPanel('mpChangePeer',{width:450, top:200})"/>
 <f:selectItems value="#{peerAction.peers}" />
 </h:selectOneMenu>
 </h:form>

SFSB:

private String selectedValue;

private String oldValue;

public void processValueChange(ValueChangeEvent value) {
 selectedValue = (String)value.getNewValue();
 oldValue = (String)value.getOldValue();
 }

I know from previous post that Pete had stated it's bad practice to handle presentation logic in a session bean (which I won't argue with although it does get confusing when SFSB's are essentially backing bean for JSF's).

The two options are:

1) to use Seam remoting to access the old value from client side and reset selected value via javascript.

2) reconstruct the HtmlSelectOneMenu component in a POJO/SFSB.

What is the recommended best practice according to Seam framework regarding this situation???