About passing the values attributes of UI components

Question

Hi,
I have a question related to passing the values attributes of UI components from JSF to a baking bean.
Assume I have inputText and I need to pass its value to the data model via an application module. So, this will be done as follows:
<h:inputText value= "#{bindings.MyValue.inputValue}";
I need also to pass this value to a managed bean. Therefore I used EL class prepared by Steve Muench available at:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0118231/stories/2006/12/18/sourceForMyFavoriteElHelperClass.html
So, in the JSF page will be as follows:
<h:inputText value="#{myBean.myValue}";
In managed bean:
String myValue;
public String get MyValue () {
return EL.getAsString("#{bindings.MyValue.inputValue }");
public void set MyValue t(String value) {
EL.set("#{bindings.MyValue.inputValue }",value);
Then when I want to use myVlaue in the managed bean just I use this line:
myVlaue = get MyValue ();
I tried to use the same steps to pass the value of selectOneMenu but I always get errors such as cannot be cast to java.lang.String.
But I achived this by binding the value of selectOneMenu to a HtmlSelectOneMenu attribute in the managed bean as follows:
In JSF page:
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{bindings.TaskView1TaskName.inputValue}"
binding= "#{projectBean.selectOneChoice1}">
In managed bean:
private HtmlSelectOneMenu selectOneChoice1;
public void setSelectOneChoice1(HtmlSelectOneMenu selectOneChoice1) {
this.selectOneChoice1 = selectOneChoice1;
public HtmlSelectOneMenu getSelectOneChoice1() {
return selectOneChoice1;
Then I can used the selectOneChoice1 value as follows :
somenu= getSelectOneChoice1();
somenuValue = (Integer)somenu.getValue();
task= taskName(somenuValue);
this works with me. Now what is the different between this way and using EL class
And how can I use EL class to pass the value of selectOneMenu to the managed bean
Thank you
Waheed

Answer 1

they are look like:
<list id="TaskView1TaskName" IterBinding="TaskView1Iterator"
ListOperMode="0" StaticList="true">
<AttrNames>
<Item Value="TaskName"/>
</AttrNames>
<ValueList>
<Item Value="value1"/>
<Item Value="value2"/>
<Item Value="value3"/>
</ValueList>
</list>
and TaskName is String