On 9/22/02 5:35 AM, "Stephen Colebourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I took a brief look at the velocity link and its mostly about introspection. > I will take a fuller look in a few days. > > The code for [lang] will be simple reflection helpers, not introspection. > However, the fact that you want to do introspection differently from > velocity shows to me that we need a commons [introspect] or [clazz] project. That's not what it shows me. :) It shows me I wanted to keep jexl and velocity separate. Velocity has some required behaviors that aren't general (actually, weird..) and I didn't want to work around them in Jexl nor force velocity to change. What I plan to do is sort things out in Jexl, and if indeed it remains general and not specific to Jexl functionality, sure - I'll happily roll it out to a commons component. What I don't want to do is have the tail wag the dog - the introspection functionality is core to Jexl, and as we found out recently, the desire of the many don't always match the requirements of the few. > This would hopefully gather together the introspection code from velocity > and jexl. It could also enable betwixt and digester to be more flexible in > matching property methods. This is currently next on my list after [lang] > reflection. Interested? Right now, the Jexl code is the Velocity code, and when I dig out of the current pile of rubble I'm in, the Jexl code will be cleaned up. That would be a good candidate for a general package. So let me see how it works out - again, I don't want Jexl's core functionality be dictated by the requirement of generalization. I am all for generalization if it can be done, but there are some things in the pipeline for jexl that I'm not sure will work out in a general package. > > Stephen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On 9/21/02 12:37 PM, "robert burrell donkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> take a look at package org.apache.velocity.util.introspection >>> >>> (http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/api/index.html is the api url.) >>> >> >> I've also pulled it out and put in jexl, as I want to do thing differently >> in Jexl than in Velocity. >> >> >>> - robert >>> >>> On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 01:33 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: >>> >>>> I have started writing the reflection code for the new [lang] > reflection >>>> subpackage. >>>> >>>> A fair bit of the basic stuff is now done (its in lang sandbox if > you're >>>> looking). It still needs tests. >>>> >>>> What I'm looking for is >>>> - any code that already exists for assisting with reflection (I've > already >>>> got beanutils) >>>> - any code that can match classes against the Java > LanguageSpecification >>>> rules for widening >>>> - any tests that already exist for reflection >>>> >>>> Any code from within commons or elsewhere is welcome to be looked at > ;-) >>>> Hyperlinks, not attachments, if possible please. >>>> >>>> Stephen >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. >>>> org> >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. >>>> org> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >> >> -- >> Geir Magnusson Jr. >> Research & Development, Adeptra Inc. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> +1-203-247-1713 >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Geir Magnusson Jr. Research & Development, Adeptra Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-203-247-1713 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
