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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:09:55 PDT

According to EL 2.2 spec, 1.18.2, when a Enum is coerced to a String, Enum.name() is used. One may argue that toString() should be used instead, but the current behavior conforms to the spec.
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