Re: [clazz] Accessing the properties

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Colebourne
From: "Dmitri Plotnikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Stephen Colebourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think the key to all APIs like this is to re-use what Java offers, and > > thats the collections API in this case. > It would indeed be very appealing to re-use the Java collections interfaces. > > H

Re: [clazz] Accessing the properties

2002-10-28 Thread Dmitri Plotnikov
Stephen, - Original Message - From: "Stephen Colebourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 8:03 PM Subject: [clazz] Accessing the properties > (I'll use the terms proper

[clazz] Accessing the properties

2002-10-28 Thread Stephen Colebourne
(I'll use the terms property and metaproperty in this email as per the checked in CVS) On the Joda project I created a subinterface and subclass for each basic type. Thus a StringProperty is a subinterface of Property that makes it specific to a String. It adds a lot of type safety, but is a bit o