Stephen,
I had a first look at both code bases. From the underlying concepts both
seem to be very similar: they both have a basic interface describing a
conversion/converter, factories for converters and a registry mechanism.
This said it is quite hard to judge, which implementation should be
From: Oliver Heger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In convert2 I like the Converter class, which is an additional
encapsulation of a registry.
This level seems like a necessity in a design to group the individual
conversions into one place.
On the other hand I have some problems
to see the benefits of the
I have just checked in a load of new commits in the convert2 subpackages.
Essentially there are now two convert codebases in CVS, Henri committed the
first based on [beanutils] IIRC, whereas I've developed the second. An
external review would be good. If you could take a look at both and see what
