JSF 1.2 HashMap - what am I missing?

Question

I am having an issue and need a second pair of eyes - I am doing something wrong?
Many thanks in advance for any time or assistance!
I have a bean with a HashMap which uses an Integer key. My page attempts to get a property from an object in the bean's hashmap. My page shows nothing - no errors, but also no data. It acts as if the .get() gets called, but returns null. I have tried everything I can think of in debug mode, and I have verified the hashmap is returned with item 1 included & intact, but I still see nothing. I also monitor the server console, and see no errors. I am using Sun RI JSF 1.2 & glassfish.
I have created a sample project to demonstrate.
*beans.jsp [snippet]:*
bq. <f:view> \\ <h:outputText id="testText" value="{color:#ff0000}#{bean.nonBeans[1].text}{color}" /> \\ </f:view>
*faces-config.xml [snippet]:*
<managed-bean>
bq. <managed-bean-name>bean</managed-bean-name> \\ <managed-bean-class>com.milsoft.bugReport.Bean</managed-bean-class> \\ <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
*2 classes:*
package com.milsoft.bugReport;
import java.util.HashMap;
public class Bean {
bq. {color:#ff0000} \\ private HashMap<Integer, NonBean> nonBeans = null;{color} \\ public Bean() { \\ super(); \\ nonBeans = new HashMap<Integer, NonBean>(); \\ {color:#ff0000} nonBeans.put(Integer.valueOf(1), new NonBean("One"));{color} \\ nonBeans.put(Integer.valueOf(2), new NonBean("Two")); \\ nonBeans.put(Integer.valueOf(3), new NonBean("Three")); \\ } \\ {color:#ff0000} \\ public HashMap<Integer, NonBean> getNonBeans() { \\ return nonBeans; \\ }{color} \\ public void setNonBeans(HashMap<Integer, NonBean> nonBeans) { \\ this.nonBeans = nonBeans; \\ }
bq.
package com.milsoft.bugReport;
public class NonBean {
bq. private String text; \\ public NonBean(String text) { \\ this.text = text; \\ } \\ {color:#ff0000} \\ public String getText() { \\ return text; \\ }{color} \\ public void setText(String text) { \\ this.text = text; \\ }

Answer 1

If you change the nonBeans property of Bean to something like this:
nonBeans = new HashMap<Long, NonBean>();
it does work!
The Expression Language Specification Version 2.1 makes you understand that integer literals are treated as Long objects.
The following specification's sections mention Long as the type for integer literals:
*1.7 Arithmetic Operators*
Arithmetic is provided to act on integer (BigInteger and Long) and floating point
*(BigDecimal and Double)...*
*1.9 Collected Syntax*
The value of an IntegerLiteral ranges from Long.MIN_VALUE to
Long.MAX_VALUE...
furthermore, many sections about operators mention the coercing to Long
That way you cannot use Integer as key, as Integer objects are only comparable to other Integer objects.
Your value into nonBeans[1] is being turned into something like nonBeans.get(new Long(1))