Description Cameron Bateman 2006-07-03 18:09:03 EDT

While working with JSF to develop a same app, I discovered that when you have code like this:

<h:selectOneMenu id="selectOneMenu1">
   <f:selectItems value="#{helloBean.selectItem}" 
                          id="selectItems1"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>

and either helloBean.selectItem either cannot be resolved or resolves to the wrong type then the error message resulting from the RI is extremely cryptic and hard to trace.  

We will validate a cannot resolve method from an EL perspective, but we can't check that the property is the correct SelectItem type until we add meta-data.