[Springframework-developer] custom property editors and JMX

[Pablo P. L. <pab...@pi...>]

I have come through a problem involving custom property editors and JMX:

Imagine you have a class with a date field, so we use the
CustomEditorConfigurer with the CustomDateEditor in the
applicationContext.xml to enter the date property as a plain string. 
So far, so good. 

Now, we like to export through JMX the bean methods by having a JmxAdapter
bean around that bean. Now, the bean does not get initialised: there is a
TypeMismatchException when setting the property. 

I have not much experience with JMX nor with Spring, so I wonder what is
going on under the hood. ¿ Is there a smart way of let's say, having the
date strings converted to date objects on the fly even with JMX ? Any
enlightment is appreciated.
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Pablo Pita Leira