关于Jsp页面的jstl标签的级联属性的异常。

使用SpringMVC框架时，当我做表单回显时。

情景描述。Employee 类有一个Department类的属性。这两个类存在多对一关联关系。

下面是Employee类的属性的定义。

public class Employee
{
    private Integer id;
    private String name;
    private String email;
    private int gender;
    private Department department;
}

下面是Department类的属性的定义。

public class Department
{
    private Integer id;
    private String departmentName;
}

当我在添加Employee 对象的页面做部门信息的表单回显时。相关的jsp页面如下。

<form:form action="input" method="POST" modelAttribute="employee">

        Name: <form:input path="name"/>
        <br>
        Email: <form:input path="email"/>
        <br>
        <%
            Map<Integer, String> genders = new HashMap();

            genders.put(0, "Female");
            genders.put(1, "Male");

            request.setAttribute("genders", genders);
        %>
        Gender: <form:radiobuttons path="gender" items="${genders}"/>
        <br>
        <%--
            jstl是支持级联属性的，在这里我想选择的部门id，则直接写Employee类中的department属性再".id"就可以了。
            而后面的itemLabel 属性和 itemValue 属性。就不用再加department这个前缀了。直接写Department类的属性名称即可。

            Department: <form:select path="department.id" items="${departments}"
            itemLabel="department.departmentName" itemValue="department.id"></form:select>
        --%>
        Department: <form:select path="department.id" items="${departments}"
        itemLabel="departmentName" itemValue="id"></form:select>
        <br>
        <input type="submit" name="Submit">
        <br>
    </form:form>

在上述jsp页面的代码中，如果把注释里的代码跟注释外面的代码换一下就会出现异常。NotReadablePropertyException

异常如下：

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /WEB-INF/views/input.jsp at line 39

36:             Department: <form:select path="department.id" items="${departments}"
37:             itemLabel="department.departmentName" itemValue="department.id"></form:select>
38:         --%>
39:         Department: <form:select path="department.id" items="${departments}"
40:         itemLabel="department.departmentName" itemValue="department.id"></form:select>
41:         <br>
42:         <input type="submit" name="Submit">

org.springframework.beans.NotReadablePropertyException: Invalid property 'department' of bean class [com.zcd.ssh.beans.Department]: Bean property 'department' is not readable or has an invalid getter method: Does the return type of the getter match the parameter type of the setter?
    org.springframework.beans.AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.getPropertyValue(AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.java:633)
    org.springframework.beans.AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.getNestedPropertyAccessor(AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.java:850)
    org.springframework.beans.AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.getPropertyAccessorForPropertyPath(AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.java:827)
    org.springframework.beans.AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.getPropertyValue(AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.java:622)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.OptionWriter.doRenderFromCollection(OptionWriter.java:202)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.OptionWriter.renderFromCollection(OptionWriter.java:180)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.OptionWriter.writeOptions(OptionWriter.java:133)