[beanutils] beans for static utility classes

[robert burrell donkin]

beanutils has a fair number of utility classes which are composed of 
static methods. i'd like to create proper beans containing the 
implementation code and have the static methods call an instance.

this would allow users to create different instances with - for example - 
different registered convertors. see

http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14848

and

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-commons-dev&m=104613177905644&w=2

it would also allow normal inheritance to be used to improve the structure 
of the code allowing - for example - the easier maintenance of the locale 
beanutils code:

http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16038

it would also allow improved and more flexible caching to be developer to 
improve performance. see:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-commons-dev&m=103929482023502&w=2

comments?

anyone objections to me implementing these changes?

- robert

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