Bind, PropertyEditor and Map

After too many days sitting and trying in vain I'm now turning to the 'Wizards of Spring' with a hopeful mind.....

This is the situation:
I want to bind a DB-relation object in a form. Designed JavaBean style, nothing unusual.

Code:

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public class Delegation implements Serializable, TernaryAssociation {

    private Event                                event;
    private Function                        delegate;
    private Date                                until;
    private DelegationLevel                level;


        public Delegation(Event event, Function delegate, Date until,
                                DelegationLevel level) {
                this.event = event;
                this.delegate = delegate;
                this.until = until;
                this.level = level;
        }
       
                [standard setters/getter]
}

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A couple of these are bound to form object

Code:

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public class DelegationForm {

        private Function function; //The function of the current user
        private Map delegations; //All the delegation node objects per function in the system
       
        public DelegationForm(Function function){
                this.function = function;
        }
       
        public DelegationForm(){}
       
        public Function getFunction() { return (this.function); }
        public void setFunction(Function function) { this.function = function; }
       
        public Map getDelegations() { return (this.delegations); }
        public void setDelegations(Map delegations) { this.delegations = delegations; }                       
}

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Relevant JSP-code:

Code:

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<c&#58;forEach var="functionnaire" items="$&#123;functionnaires&#125;">
<c&#58;set var="fid" value="$&#123;functionnaire.function.id&#125;"/>
<TR>
        <spring&#58;bind path="command.delegations&#91;$&#123;fid&#125;&#93;">
                <TD<b><c&#58;out value="$&#123;functionnaire.function.description&#125; $&#123;functionnaire.user.fname&#125; $&#123;functionnaire.user.lname&#125; "/></b></TD>
                <c&#58;forEach var="level" items="$&#123;levellist&#125;">       
                        <TD><input  type="radio" name="<c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.expression&#125;"/>"
                                                value="<c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.value&#125;"/>"                                                       
                        ></TD>
                </c&#58;forEach>
        </spring&#58;bind>
</TR>
</c&#58;forEach>

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where 'functionnaires' is a list of objects containing a User and a Function, provided by controller function referenceData. 'command.delegations' is the form objects Map, which is preloaded with existing data from database.

What I cannot seem to accomplish is to get PropertyEditor

Code:

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public class DelegationEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
       
        private LogicFacade logic;
       
        public static Category log = Category.getInstance(DelegationEditor.class.getName());
       
        public LogicFacade getLogic() { return (this.logic); }
        public void setLogic(LogicFacade logic) { this.logic = logic; }
 
        public void setAsText(String text) {
                log.debug("setAsText got: " +  text);
                Delegation status = null;
                if(text.trim().equals("") || text == null){
                        this.setValue(null);
                }
                else{
                        try{
                                this.setValue(new Delegation(null, null, null, null));
                        }catch(Exception e){
                               
                        }
                }
        }
       
        public String getAsText(Delegation status) throws Exception {

                log.debug("getAsText got: " +  status);
                if(status == null){
                        return "Hejsan";
                }//if
                else{
                        return status.getEvent().getId() + "@" + status.getDelegate().getId();
                }//else               
        }
}

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to print out 'Hejsan' or the wanted string 'xxx@xxx'. Instead it somehow uses Delegation's internal toString()-function, resulting in

Code:

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<TD><input  type="radio" name="delegations&#91;5&#93;"                                                value="ks.rah.avik2.domain.Delegation@1644c9&#91;event&#58; =1,delegate&#58; =5,level&#58; =Inga rättigheter&#93;" ></TD>

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despite the fact that

Code:

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protected void initBinder(HttpServletRequest request, ServletRequestDataBinder binder) {
                super.initBinder(request,binder);
                binder.registerCustomEditor(Delegation.class, "delegations.*", delegEditor);
        }

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is invoked in the DelegationFormController class.

In short: I don't see any PropertyEditor impact on my presented HTML-page.

What am I doing wrong in binding here? Is invoking the contents of a Map in a Command object with 'mapname[keystring]' not doable? Any tips and tricks?

Thanks in advance,