Hello,

now I tried with jstl-api-1.2.jar and jstl-impl-1.2.jar downloaded from 
https://jstl.dev.java.net/download.html - same result.

Am Friday 15 October 2010 schrieb Christopher Schultz:
> >> Uh... why override the toString method like that?
> > 
> > Well, as written in java.lang.Enum:
> > 
> > An enum type should override this method when a more
> > "programmer-friendly" string form exists.
> 
> Fair enough. I feel like VALID versus INVALID (which could be confusing
> in this case) would be plenty programmer-friendly.

Taht was just a simplified class for demonstration purposes.

> >>> The thing is, that EL is using the name() method to print the enum and
> >>> JSTL is using toString(). I did not expect a different enum treatment
> >>> here.
> >> 
> >> If you need it to emit the same thing, doing:
> >> 
> >> <c:out value="${myEnumValue.name}"/>
> > 
> > No, because that would call a method getName() which doesn't exist - the
> > method is named name().
> 
> <c:out value="${myEnumValue.getName()}"/>

You can't do that (at least not with Tomcat 6.0.29).

> Or, just consistently use EL, since that actually works as you expect.

Well...it is again just a simplified example.


Bye

Oliver

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