<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Were you compairing Date agaist string here, as your double quotes indicate?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Xiandong<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 23, 2008, at 17:33, jack wu &lt;<a href="mailto:jackxwu@yahoo.com">jackxwu@yahoo.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>if i have several levels of java beans, the Date is not working. example:<br><br>        m:Message( first.second.date &gt; "01-jan-2007" )<br><br>receive exceptions such as:<br>Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String<br>    at java.util.Date.compareTo(Date.java:112)<br>    at org.mvel.math.IEEEFloatingPointMath.doOperationNonNumeric(IEEEFloatingPointMath.java:111)<br>    at org.mvel.math.IEEEFloatingPointMath._doOperations(IEEEFloatingPointMath.java:90)<br>    at
 org.mvel.math.IEEEFloatingPointMath.doOperation(IEEEFloatingPointMath.java:41)<br>    at org.mvel.util.ParseTools.doOperations(ParseTools.java:798)<br>    at org.mvel.ast.BinaryOperation.getReducedValueAccelerated(BinaryOperation.java:20)<br>    at org.mvel.MVELRuntime.execute(MVELRuntime.java:88)<br>    at
 org.mvel.CompiledExpression.getValue(CompiledExpression.java:108)<br>    at org.mvel.MVEL.executeExpression(MVEL.java:230)<br>    at org.drools.base.mvel.MVELPredicateExpression.evaluate(MVELPredicateExpression.java:36)<br>    at org.drools.rule.PredicateConstraint.isAllowed(PredicateConstraint.java:210)<br><br><p> 
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