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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:17:17+00:00

I can access my variable stored in a backing bean from my JSF2 page,

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I can access my variable stored in a backing bean from my JSF2 page, so things like

<h:outputText value="#{myBean.myValue}"/>

work, and the value (which is an int btw.) prints okay.
However, when trying to use this value in conditional expressions within c:if and/or c:when tags it never equals anything… so:

<c:if test="#{myBean.myValue == 1}">
    <c:set var="myVar" value="true"/>
</c:if>

<c:choose>
    <c:when test="#{myBean.myValue > 1}">
        <c:set var="myVar" value="true"/>
    </c:when>
</c:choose>

or even 

#{myBean.myValue eq '1'}

or 

#{myBean.myValue == '1'}

will never evaluate to true, even if the value is indeed 1 or >1.

Annoyingly the comparison works in the rendered attribute of a tag! So this:

<h:outputText value="whatever" rendered="#{myBean.myValue == 1}"/>

is fine!

What is going on?

UPDATE:

This works:

public int getMyValue() {
    return 1;
}

but this does not:

@Column(name = "orderstatus")
public int getOrderStatus() {
return orderStatus;
}

The int’s value is printed correctly, but 1 == 1 is false.

Are entity beans handled in a special way? Can I use them for displaying their value on the UI?

UPDATE2:

<h:outputText value="#{order.adcOrderStatus.orderStatus.class}"/>

prints java.lang.Integer.

UPDATE3:

Here is the full code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:cc="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite">
    <cc:interface>
        <cc:attribute name="orderStatus" required="true"/>
    </cc:interface>
    <cc:implementation>
        <c:choose>
            <c:when test="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 1}" >
                <c:set var="unknownStatus" value="false"/>
            </c:when>
            <c:when test="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 2}" >
                <c:set var="unknownStatus" value="false"/>
            </c:when>
            <c:when test="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 3}" >
                <c:set var="unknownStatus" value="false"/>
            </c:when>
            <c:when test="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 99}" >
                <c:set var="unknownStatus" value="false"/>
            </c:when>
            <c:otherwise>
                <c:set var="unknownStatus" value="true"/>
            </c:otherwise>
        </c:choose>
        <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/flag_yellow.png']}" rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 1}"/>
        <h:outputText value="Created" rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 1}"/>
        <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/flag_orange.png']}" rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 2}"/>
        <h:outputText value="Stopped" rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 2}"/>
        <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/flag_green.png']}" rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 3}"/>
        <h:outputText value="Active" rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 3}"/>
        <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/flag_red.png']}" rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 99}"/>
        <h:outputText value="Failed" rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 99}"/>
        <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/question_mark.png']}" rendered="#{unknownStatus}"/>
        <h:outputText value="Unknown" rendered="#{unknownStatus}"/>
    </cc:implementation>
</html>

It works when called with an int value. But this doesn’t work:

    <p:dataTable value="#{cc.attrs.orders}" var="order">
        <p:column>
            <f:facet name="header">
                <h:outputText value="Status"/>
            </f:facet>
            <mytag:orderStatus orderStatus="#{order.adcOrderStatus.orderStatus}"/>
        </p:column>
    </p:dataTable>

This displays the correct value:

<h:outputText value="#{order.adcOrderStatus.orderStatus.class}"/>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Did you declare JSTL core taglib as follows?

    <html xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core">

    If not or incorrectly declared, they it simply won’t be parsed and end up plain vanilla in generated HTML output. You can confirm this by opening the page in browser, rightlicking it and choosing View Source. You should not see any JSTL tag in there.

    Update: as per your update, it’s related to the fact that JSTL runs during build time of the view and JSF during render time of the view. In your particular case, this all would fail if #{cc.attrs.orderStatus} only available during render time of the view. For example, when it represents the currently iterated item of an iterating component, such as <h:dataTable>.

    You’d better rewrite the composite component as follows to use the rendered attribute instead:

    <h:panelGroup rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 1}">
    <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/flag_yellow.png']}" /> Created
</h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 2}">
    <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/flag_orange.png']}" /> Stopped
</h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 3}">
    <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/flag_green.png']}" /> Active
</h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus == 99}">
    <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/flag_red.png']}"  /> Failed
</h:panelGroup>
<h:panelGroup rendered="#{cc.attrs.orderStatus != 1 && cc.attrs.orderStatus != 2 && cc.attrs.orderStatus != 3 && cc.attrs.orderStatus != 99}">
    <h:graphicImage url="#{resource['img/icons/question_mark.png']}" /> Unknown
</h:panelGroup>

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