problem with value attribute of inputText

Hi All

Kindly help me in fixing this issue. I have a jsp with the following tag in it:

<h:inputText id="employees" value="#{myBean.totalEmployees}">
<f:validateDoubleRange minimum="1" />

The field, totalEmployees, is of type 'int' in the bean, 'myBean.java'.
The problem is that by default there is always a 0 (zero) shown in the textbox in the jsp. I want the textfield to be empty by default when the page is shown. Can someone pl. suggest how i can solve this issue

Thanks in advance

The field, totalEmployees, is of type 'int' in the bean, 'myBean.java'.

You don't want to replace it with the Integer wrapper class ?