Hi,
I have used seam gen tool to generate entities first and then UI. However, i did modify the entity classes a lot to suit my requirements. Once, i was confortable and fixed all compile errors, i generated ui and exploded it to jboss 4.2.2 GA

However, when i try to enter Gender form field (value 'male'), i am getting validation error that the length should be between 0 and 6. What is starange is that the value i enter is between 0 and 6 characters.

What do you think iam doing wrong here?
Either it should be an issue with EnumType.STRING and a mismatch with Schema in backend
Or it should be something else i don't quiet understand.

Here is the code snippet on length of gender field.
a) xhtml code snippet
            <s:decorate id="genderField" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
                <ui:define name="label">Gender</ui:define>
                <h:inputText id="gender"
                          value="#{userprofileHome.instance.gender}">
                    <a:support event="onblur" reRender="genderField" bypassUpdates="true" ajaxSingle="true"/>
                </h:inputText>
            </s:decorate>

b) Entity class code snippet:
        @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
        @Column(name = "gender", length = 6)
        @Length(max = 6)
        public GenderType getGender()
        {
                return this.gender;
        }
        public void setGender(GenderType gender)
        {
                this.gender = gender;
        }

c) enum snippet
public enum GenderType
{
        male,
        female
}

d) schema code snippet
CREATE TABLE userprofile
(
        id BIGINT NOT NULL,
        name TINYTEXT NOT NULL,
        gender ENUM ('male','female') NULL,
        lastupdated DATETIME NULL,
        PRIMARY KEY (id)
);

Even though iam entering the gender field with values 'male' or 'female', iam receiving length validation error 'length should be between 0 and 6 characters.
Database is using utf8 encoding.

Thank you
sri