I'm having a little bit of issue fitting the widgets together on this problem.

I have an Entity(TelephoneNumber) which I'm creating and I need associate 3 other existing entites on the creation page.

What I have so far is. Below. However I'm getting an

22:48:55,353 WARN  [lifecycle] For input string: "BLNGMT - Billings, MT"
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "BLNGMT - Billings, MT"

It's passing the value of the suggestionBox rather than the entity. What is the correct way to do this? Can anyone post some sample code as I think this must be pretty common.

<s:decorate template="/layout/edit.xhtml">
     <ui:define name="label">Site</ui:define>
     <h:inputText value="#{telephoneNumber.site}" id="site" size="75" required="false" label="#{telephoneNumber.site.name}">
          <s:convertEntity />
     </h:inputText>     
          <rich:suggestionbox for="site" suggestionAction="#{siteUtil.searchSites}"  var="_site" minChars="2" id="suggestion" width="500" selfRendered="true">
             <h:column>
               <h:outputText value="#{_site.name} - #{_site.alias}" />
          </h:column>
          </rich:suggestionbox> 
</s:decorate>

@Entity
@Name("telephoneNumber")
@Table(name="telephone_number")
public class TelephoneNumber implements Serializable {
     
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
     
     private String number;
     private Date date_created;
     private Date date_modified;
     private boolean e911;
     private TNType type;
     private TNStatus status;
     private String cnam;
     private String forward;
     private Site site;
     private RateCenter rateCenter;
     private VoiceGroup voiceGroup;
     
     @Id
     public String getNumber() {
          return number;
     }
     public void setNumber(String number) {
          this.number = number;
     }
     
     @NotNull
     public Date getDate_created() {
          return date_created;
     }
     public void setDate_created(Date date_created) {
          this.date_created = date_created;
     }
     
     @Version
     public Date getDate_modified() {
          return date_modified;
     }
     public void setDate_modified(Date date_modified) {
          this.date_modified = date_modified;
     }
     
     @NotNull
     public boolean isE911() {
          return e911;
     }
     public void setE911(boolean e911) {
          this.e911 = e911;
     }
     public TNType getType() {
          return type;
     }
     public void setType(TNType type) {
          this.type = type;
     }
     public TNStatus getStatus() {
          return status;
     }
     public void setStatus(TNStatus status) {
          this.status = status;
     }
     
     @Length(max=15)
     public String getCnam() {
          return cnam;
     }
     public void setCnam(String cnam) {
          this.cnam = cnam;
     }
     public String getForward() {
          return forward;
     }
     public void setForward(String forward) {
          this.forward = forward;
     }
     
     @ManyToOne
     @JoinColumn(name = "site_id", nullable = true)
     public void setSite(Site site) {
          this.site = site;
     }
     public Site getSite() {
          return site;
     }
     @ManyToOne
     @JoinColumn(name = "rate_center_id", nullable = true)
     public RateCenter getRateCenter() {
          return rateCenter;
     }
     public void setRateCenter(RateCenter rateCenter) {
          this.rateCenter = rateCenter;
     }
     
     @ManyToOne
     @JoinColumn(name = "voice_group_id", nullable = true)
     public VoiceGroup getVoiceGroup() {
          return voiceGroup;
     }
     public void setVoiceGroup(VoiceGroup voiceGroup) {
          this.voiceGroup = voiceGroup;
     }     
}