The majority of the jboss means use non-string attributes. The conversion is based on the standard JavaBean property editor plugin mechanism. We bundle a number of property editors for commonly used types, java.io.File being one of them.
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Releases]$ jar -tf jboss-4.0.1/lib/jboss-common.jar | grep propertyeditor | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/ | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/BigDecimalEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/BlockingModeEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/BooleanEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/ClassArrayEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/ClassEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/DateEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/DocumentEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/DoubleEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/ElementEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/FileEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/FloatEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/InetAddressEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/IntArrayEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/IntegerEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/LongEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/PropertiesEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/PropertyEditors.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/ShortEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/StringArrayEditor.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/TextPropertyEditorSupport.class | org/jboss/util/propertyeditor/URLEditor.class | We will soon be adding support for using the jbossxb framework in combination with xml namespaces such that you can write more sophisticated xml -> object parsing and ultimately a jaxb 2.0 mechanism. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3863129#3863129 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3863129 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list JBoss-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user