Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I'm in the process of upgrading a massive struts 1.3 application to the newest version of Weblogic 10.3.5. I have successfully migrated everything except these JSP tags. I have to admit I'm not a front-end developer for the most part.

Here is the problem:

I have a <HTML:RADIO> tag that looks like :

<html:radio property="role" value="<%=srtId%>" tabindex="1" onclick="form.submit();" />

This is the error:

LoginRole.jsp:33:60: The method setValue(String) in the type RadioTag is not applicable for the arguments (Object)
<html:radio property="role" value="<%=srtId%>" tabindex="1" onclick="form.submit();" />
^-^

.. I KNOW what the error is saying and I can easliy correct the call if I download the source, change the class and recompile, but I can't do that. I have dozens of these tags, both from the regular taglibs but also a number of custom tags, over 400 JSPs, some of which are 1000 lines long.

If I change all these calls to EL they work fine... also the post to the server is just the string ="<%=srtId%>" instead of the integer value... Why did this notation stop functioning? I know this is an old app but this shoud be backwards compatible one would think.

Thank you in advance,
Eric