Using seams cool identity management stuff:

<security:jpa-identity-store 
        user-class="nz.co.softwarefactory.risingstars.model.User"
        role-class="nz.co.softwarefactory.risingstars.model.Role"/>

    @UserPrincipal
    @Email
    @Column(unique = true)
    private String email;

<h:inputText id="login_username" 
   value="#{credentials.username}" required="true"
        title="#{messages.entity_user_username_tooltip}" size="70" />

I am inside a decorator with validateAll

<s:validateAll>
        <ui:insert name="content" />
</s:validateAll>

I am using email as my UserPrincipal but the Hibernate Annotation is being ignored for some reason.

Any ideas?