> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juozas Baliuka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:15 PM
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> Subject: Re: [lang] Proposal for *NEXT* version
>
>
> Hi,
> I do not think dependency on top level project is any problem
> for commons
> component, if public API does's not have classes or
> interfaces from this
> project.
I disagree. Commons Lang should sit as close to the JDK as possible - that's
really what it's all about. If it starts depending on other packages, then
it seems to me that it no longer meets its design goals.
> Projects like BCEL , ORO, Lucene are very good and solve
> common problems
> too.
Sure, but they do not - and should not - relate to Commons Lang.
--
Martin Cooper
>
> > > > The DynaBean abstraction (in BeanUtils today) lets you
> "synthesize"
> > beans
> > > > with a dynamic set of properties -- although only
> PropertyUtils knows
> > how
> > > > to do property get/set calls transparently for you. In
> Struts, for
> > > > example, we take an XML-ized version of a description
> like your Person
> > > > declaration above:
> > > >
> > > > <form-bean name="Person">
> > > > <form-property name="surname" type="java.lang.String"/>
> > > > <form-property name="age" type="int"/>
> > > > </form-bean>
> > >
> > > We can implement some method like
> > > Class cls = BeanUtils.getBeanClass( descriptors, classLoader );
> > > I can take this task, if somebody thinks it is usefull
> for frameworks
> like
> > > Struts.
> > > It must be trivial to implement using BCEL.
> >
> > At the moment, different people have different meanings for
> this potential
> > new project. We need to flesh out a bit more deisgn before
> we can code a
> > solution IMO. Also, it would be a major departure for
> Commons to require
> > BCEL as a dependency.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
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