Custom component problem

Question

I wrote a custom component:
Here is the code for the UIComponent:
package customcomponents;
import javax.faces.component.*;
import javax.faces.context.*;
import java.util.Vector;
import jsf.*;
public class UIEventsTable extends UIComponentBase {
     public String getFamily() {
          return "EventsTable";
     public void encodeEnd( FacesContext context ) throws java.io.IOException {
          Vector<Event> events = (Vector<Event>) this.getAttributes().get("events");
          ResponseWriter writer = context.getResponseWriter();
          writer.startElement("table" , this );
          for( int i = 0 ; i < events.size() ; ++i ) {
               writer.startElement("tr",this);
                    writer.startElement("td",this);
                         writer.write( events.elementAt(i).getEvent_description() );
                    writer.endElement("td");
               writer.endElement("tr");
          writer.endElement("table");
}This is the tag class
package customcomponents;
import javax.faces.webapp.*;
import javax.faces.component.*;
import java.util.*;
import jsf.*;
public class EventsTableTag extends UIComponentTag {
     Vector<Event> events = null;
     public String getRendererType() {
          return null;
     public String getComponentType() {
          return "EventsTable";
     public void release() {
          super.release();
          events = null;
     protected void setProperties( UIComponent component ){
          super.setProperties( component );
          if( events != null )
               component.getAttributes().put( "events" , events );
     public Vector<Event> getEvents() {
          return events;
     public void setEvents(Vector<Event> events) {
          this.events = events;
}Taglib descriptor:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-jsptaglibrary_1_2.dtd">
<taglib>
     <tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
    <jsp-version>1.2</jsp-version>
    <short-name>d</short-name>
     <uri>http://eventsTable.com/</uri>
    <tag>
         <name>EventsTable</name>
           <tag-class>customcomponents.EventsTableTag</tag-class>
           <body-content>JSP</body-content>
         <attribute>
              <name>events</name>
         </attribute>
         <attribute>
              <name>id</name>
         </attribute>
         <attribute>
               <name>rendered</name>
          </attribute>
          <attribute>
               <name>binding</name>
          </attribute>
    </tag>
</taglib>And finally how I invoke the tag
<d:EventsTable events="#{location.events}" />
...Now location.events is a java.util.Vector with the events. But when I use this tag I get following error message:
Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to convert string "#{location.events}" to class "java.util.Vector" for attribute "events": Property Editor not registered with the PropertyEditorManagerI do not understand why this doesn't work. Because in a "h:dataTable" I can tell the component to use an array as an input. Even more I don't know what a PropertyEditorManager is.
So how can I pass the vector object to this custom component?

Answer 1

I have tried with tomcat-6.0.14 and RI 1.2_06-b02-FCS
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd"
   version="2.1">
   <tlib-version>1.1</tlib-version>
    <short-name>d</short-name>
     <uri>http://eventsTable.com/</uri>
    <tag>
         <name>EventsTable</name>
           <tag-class>customcomponents.EventsTableTag</tag-class>
       <attribute>
           <name>events</name>
         <deferred-value>
            <type>java.util.Vector</type>
         </deferred-value>        
      </attribute>
    </tag>
</taglib>
package customcomponents;
import javax.el.ValueExpression;
import javax.faces.webapp.*;
import javax.faces.component.*;
public class EventsTableTag extends UIComponentELTag {
     private ValueExpression events = null;
     public String getRendererType() {
          return null;
     public String getComponentType() {
          return "EventsTable";
     public void release() {
          super.release();
          events = null;
     protected void setProperties( UIComponent component ){
          super.setProperties( component );
          component.setValueExpression("events", events);
     public void setEvents(ValueExpression events){
          this.events = events;
}