if i have several levels of java beans, the Date is not working. example:<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at java.util.Date.compareTo(Date.java:112)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.mvel.math.IEEEFloatingPointMath.doOperationNonNumeric(IEEEFloatingPointMath.java:111)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.mvel.math.IEEEFloatingPointMath._doOperations(IEEEFloatingPointMath.java:90)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.mvel.math.IEEEFloatingPointMath.doOperation(IEEEFloatingPointMath.java:41)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.mvel.util.ParseTools.doOperations(ParseTools.java:798)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.mvel.ast.BinaryOperation.getReducedValueAccelerated(BinaryOperation.java:20)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.mvel.MVELRuntime.execute(MVELRuntime.java:88)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
 org.mvel.CompiledExpression.getValue(CompiledExpression.java:108)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.mvel.MVEL.executeExpression(MVEL.java:230)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.drools.base.mvel.MVELPredicateExpression.evaluate(MVELPredicateExpression.java:36)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.drools.rule.PredicateConstraint.isAllowed(PredicateConstraint.java:210)<br><br><p>&#32;
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