From: Matthias Wessendorf <matzew_at_apache.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:18:48 +0200

hi ryan

we found this:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7494

it is fixed already in Tomcat but not in Glassfish, and not in JBoss).

See this discussion on this Tomcat bug:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43656

Tomcat's ELSupport.
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/el/lang/ELSupport.java?revision=702632&view=markup

See the diffs in:
-protected final static Number coerceToNumber(final Number number,
final Class type) throws IllegalArgumentException;
-public final static Object coerceToType(final Object obj, final Class
type) throws IllegalArgumentException;

Also, see here for JBoss:
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4067

Greetings,
Matthias

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