Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help me.  I am trying to use a map-entry to
store and display the status of an entity in the database.  I have the
following managed-bean defined in my faces-config.xml file:

<managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>RPHandler</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>com.sett.backing.RPHandler</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 <managed-property>
   <property-name>ratePlan</property-name>
   <value>#{ratePlanBean}</value>
 </managed-property>
 <managed-property>
   <property-name>statusMap</property-name>
   <property-class>java.util.HashMap</property-class>
   <map-entries>
     <map-entry>
       <key>In Development</key>
       <value>D</value>
     </map-entry>
     <map-entry>
       <key>Active</key>
       <value>A</value>
     </map-entry>
     <map-entry>
       <key>Not For Sale</key>
       <value>N</value>
     </map-entry>
   </map-entries>
 </managed-property>
</managed-bean>

In my ratePlanForm.jsp file I have the following code to display a
SELECT box:

<h:selectOneMenu id="status" value="#{RPHandler.ratePlan.status}">
 <f:selectItems value="#{RPHandler.statusMap}" />
<h:selectOneMenu>

Which creates the following HTML output:

<select id="status"><option value="D>In Development</option><option
value="A">Active</option><option value="N">Not For Sale</option></
select>

This is exactly what I want, however when I then try and show a list
of ratePlans and their associated status's I use:

<h:outputText value="#{RPHandler.statusMap[ratePlan.status]}" />

Which obviously shows nothing as ratePlan.status is set to the value
from the SELECT box ("A" for example) and their is no key equal to A
in the HashMap (as I have had to declare the HashMap with the
descriptions in the key field so that the selectItems JSF tag displays
the descriptions in the SELECT box).  How to I get the outputText to
show the textual description of A?  Do I need to declare two hashmaps?

Many Thanks

Andy