Backing Bean initialization with Managed Property fails

Hi all,

I don't get a map entry of my managed bean initialized with an object value.

Instead it contains only a String with the class name.

Snippets:

First I have a bean called Range.

<managed-bean>

<managed-bean-name>Range</managed-bean-name>

<managed-bean-class>xxx.search.Range</managed-bean-class>

<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>

<managed-property>

<property-name>from</property-name>

<value>testValue</value>

</managed-property>

</managed-bean>

This bean should be used in another bean:

<managed-bean>

<managed-bean-name>Search</managed-bean-name>

<managed-bean-class>xxx.Search</managed-bean-class>

<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>

<managed-property>

<property-name>attributes</property-name>

<map-entries>

<map-entry>

<key>submissionDate</key>

<value>#{Range}</value>

</map-entry>

</map-entries>

</managed-property>

</managed-bean>

public class Search implements java.io.Serializable {

private Map<String, Object> attributes;

public Map<String, Object> getAttributes() {...}

public void setAttributes(Map<String, Object> attributes) {....}

...

}

Class xxx.Search contains a Map called attributes.

Now I want to initialize this map with an entry of type Range.

The problem is that the Map attributes contains only a String "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of the Range object.

Range and Search are both serializeable.

What's going wrong here?

Is it generally possible to init collections with objects?

Michael

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