I am doing JSF form validation precisely in the manner described in the Seam documentation, and things are working just fine for all but one case where I am using a custom converter.

Here is the Facelet snippet:

<s:decorate id="paymentDecoration" template="../templates/fieldValidation.jspx">
      <ui:define name="labelText">Amount</ui:define>
      <ui:define name="formField">
         <h:inputText value="#{payment.amount}"
                      id="amountBox"
                      required="true"
                      tabindex="1" accesskey="N">
            <a4j:support event="onblur" reRender="paymentDecoration" bypassUpdates="true"/>
         </h:inputText>
      </ui:define>
</s:decorate>

Here is the Hibernate Validator annotation on the entity:

@Column(name = "AMOUNT", nullable = true)
@Digits(integerDigits = 10, fractionalDigits = 2, message = "#{messages['currency.invalid.format']}")
public BigDecimal getAmount() {
      return amount;
}

Finally, I wrote a custom converter to BigDecimal:

@Name("bigDecimalConverter")
@Converter(forClass = BigDecimal.class)
public class BigDecimalConverter extends NumberConverter {
.
.
.
}

The problem is that the converter does its work before the @Digits validation takes hold, so my converter throws a ParseException when I pass in bad values like g.

I would appreciate any insight into how to approach this scenario.

Thanks.