Thank you!
your tip did it. I changed the property type to string because 119 is more 
ambigous than 'w' in this case.

Sincerly,
burghard.britzke

Am 11.06.2012 um 09:58 schrieb Konstantin Kolinko:

> 2012/6/11 burghard.britzke <b...@charmides.in-berlin.de>:
>> with tomcat 7.0.27, primefaces 3.3, myfaces 2.1.17, weld 1.1.8
>> 
>> for the jsf-source
>> Line 56: <h:graphicImage
>> Line 57:    value="/images/#{personenBean.aktuellePerson.geschlecht eq 'w' ? 
>> 'fe':''}male.png">
>> Line 58: </h:graphicImage>
>> 
>> and the bean
>> public class Person implements Serializable {
>>        @Column(name = "\"geschlecht\"", nullable = false, length = 1)
>>        private char geschlecht;
>> ...
>> 
>> an Exception is thrown
>> 
>> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>> Caused by:<br/>javax.el.ELException - Cannot convert w of type class 
>> java.lang.String to class java.lang.Long
>> at org.apache.el.lang.ELSupport.coerceToNumber(ELSupport.java:304)
>> personen.xhtml at line 57 and column 92    
>> value="/images/#{personenBean.aktuellePerson.geschlecht eq 'w' ? 
>> 'fe':''}male.png"
>> 
>> At MyFaces Discussion <us...@myfaces.apache.org> they told me this would 
>> probably be an issue with tomcat so I downgraded to Tomcat 7.0.25 and the 
>> error disappeared.
>> What are the next steps to get rid of this exception with Tomacat 7.0.27?
>> 
> 
> Yes, Tomcat behaviour changed and new behaviour follows the EL
> specification more closely. It was because of this bug report:
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52666
> 
> See EL specification for more details.
> 
> According to EL 2.2 ch. 1.18.3 coercion from char to a number is performed as
> "If A is Character, convert A to new Short((short)a.charValue()) ..."
> 
> so you have to s/'w'/119/.
> 
> There might be other workarounds, such as
> a) Add another property to that bean that will return the value as String
> b) Use a function such as fn:trim() from JSTL to force conversion of
> that value into String.
> 
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Kolinko
> 
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