re: new functionality in some of the commons classes - contd

2003-11-23 Thread Henri Yandell
One thing that helps is to use the [component] notation so that people notice the email quicker. I imagine that most of us filter the components that we care about most into special folders and check the general commons folder less often. So a title like: [lang] new functions for StringUtils mig

re: new functionality in some of the commons classes - contd

2003-11-23 Thread Ash ..
Hi, I got no reply for my second email. (Or did I miss any.) Much of the ideas I have here are about minor functionality in some of the basic classes (such as lang.StringUtils etc). I would be glad to know how to go about it. I mentioned one as an example, perhaps it would be preferred if I men

new functionality in some of the commons classes - contd

2003-11-22 Thread Ash ..
Hello again, Adding to my earlier email I just sent out, I wish to give an example here, of some of the ideas I have. The concept of a "naught" String. A String is naught if it is either 'null' or is the literal "null". I have often encountered this situation in my JSP project where a particul