> > >Simply > > >forcing Task authors to provide getters may be good enough. This can be > > >validated at parse time (in IntrospectionHelper) for enforcement. > > > > Not desirable. Only a small population of users will ever use the getters > > but it constitutes a significant amount of work. > >I disagree here. Adding a "public String getFoo()" is a 30 second task. >I would be more than willing to volunteer my time to go through very >task in Ant and provide such accessor methods if the group voiced >support for it. > > > Also how would you deal > > with sub-elements. > >Indexed properties, as defined by the JavaBeans spec. A little more >involved than the "getFoo()" example, but not a big deal, especially >since it can be handled by an abstract base class or a delegation class.
+1 for bean-spec conform development! Not only for task... Don't you agree, Sim!?! ;-) Greetings, Chris
