REQUEST: overloaded setters

[Anthony Martin]

I wonder if it is reasonable for setters to be overloaded.  I am facing the requirement for true Date and int values to be pre-populated in a ActionForm.  I know how to pre-populate, and would like to do so by using native Date and int values rather than converting them to strings first.  I have found that if I overload the setters, I get ServletExceptions.  These exceptions say that there are no getter methods defined for the properties when getter methods exist.   At this time, I have created a workaround: setXxxAsInt() or setXxxAsDate().  Am I to understand that overloading is not part of the general Sun Microsystems bean specification, and that my approach is correct?     Anthony   "When you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly."