Just had a look at the new commons-utils module and found the class "TagUtils". Please forgive me for saying it directly: This piece of code is horrible! It seems to be a mixture of various static methods without any direct relation to "Tags". Looks like a huge graveyard for quick and dirty static code pieces. Having in mind a stable API (this is what we intended with these commons jars - right?) I must say we SHOULD get rid of this code and/or refactor it to several separate utils classes. Each one of them having a clear and certain scope.
WDYT? --Manfred