check box in simple html tag in jsf

[rsathish gandhi]

i'm very new in jsf, so please help me my question

<td>
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="checkbox" value="true" title="click it to select or deselect"/>
<h:outputText value="Want to participate?"/>
</td>

when i running this i got this error
java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Boolean

+- Stack Trace
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Boolean
at javax.faces.component.UISelectBoolean.isSelected(UISelectBoolean.java:106)
at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.CheckboxRenderer.getEndTextToRender(CheckboxRenderer.java:137)
at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.encodeEnd(HtmlBasicRenderer.java:160)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:861)
at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.renderChild(RendererBase.java:286)
at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.renderChildren(RendererBase.java:262)
at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.SimpleToggleControlTemplate.doEncodeChildren(SimpleToggleControlTemplate.java:347)
at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.SimpleToggleControlTemplate.doEncodeChildren(SimpleToggleControlTemplate.java:342)
at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.encodeChildren(RendererBase.java:121)
at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.SimpleTogglePanelRenderer.encodeChildren(SimpleTogglePanelRenderer.java:208)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:837)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:930)
at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:148)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:837)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:930)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:933)
at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:592)
at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108)
at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:196)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:110)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:100)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:266)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:83)
at org.jboss.seam.web.IdentityFilter.doFilter(IdentityFilter.java:40)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:90)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:64)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:177)
at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.handleRequest(BaseFilter.java:267)
at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.processUploadsAndHandleRequest(BaseFilter.java:380)
at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:507)
at org.jboss.seam.web.Ajax4jsfFilter.doFilter(Ajax4jsfFilter.java:56)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
at org.jboss.seam.web.LoggingFilter.doFilter(LoggingFilter.java:58)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
at org.jboss.seam.web.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:53)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:190)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:433)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:92)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:828)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:601)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Thanks & Regards
Sathish Kumar

[Rakesh Enoch]

why dont you try an expression (EL) which evaluates to true. try
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="chechbox" value="#{true}">
</h:selectBooleanCheckbox>

This should work

[Bauke Scholtz]

Better: why don't you bind it to a Boolean property of a managed bean? Now you can't get the checked value in the JSF side without nasty workarounds.

[Tim Holloway]

This is especially a problem when you attempt to bind ORM domain objects to JSF views.

Unfortunately, a lot of databases don't support boolean primitive types, so people end up having to fake them with string or numeric values. The stock ORM mapper often doesn't realize that they're binary, so it presents their database-defined types.

However the HTML checkbox control in JSF only works with true booleans. The resulting data type mismatch gives exactly this kind of error.

There are a couple of potential solutions:

1. Supply a JSF converter that translates the boolean checkbox value to/from the target data type.

2. Configure your ORM system to do the translation (this may be vendor-specific).

3. Supply an intermediary between the actual domain object and the UI. That is, a façade or decorator that remaps the data type.

[Bauke Scholtz]

Tim Holloway wrote:This is especially a problem when you attempt to bind ORM domain objects to JSF views.

Sorry, but there is no means of ORM domain objects in the topicstart.