On 7/30/07, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The main question I have is whether or not this would be useful enough > to go through the trouble of implementing it. Thoughts?
i can certainly imagine this mechanism being useful. you'd need to account for the fact that sometimes (often?) the conversion of a bean to an entry requires calculation of element values in collaboration with objects that aren't directly associated with the bean itself. for instance, imagine a converter that uses a ResourceLocator to serialize a bean into an entry with IRIs calculated based on the state of the ResourceLocator. one way to handle this would be to let converters be pluggable.
