Is there a way to dynamically create a selectItem list? I dont really want to have to create lots of bean code to make my lists return List.>
Use instead. It accepts next to List and SelectItem[] also a Map as value where the map key is the item label and map value is the item value. Or if you're already on JSF 2.0, then you can use a List instead where the current item can be referenced by the var attribute.