On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> Henri wrote: > 1) BitField => Collections possibly. or Lang. > 2) Interpolator => Kill. > 3) StopWatch ? > 4) WordWrapUtils => Lang's sandbox. It's a break off of StringUtils which > was not very stable at release time. > 5) XmlUtils => Kill. > 6) identifier/ => Find somewhere > 7) GenerateUniqueId => Help commons-email with how to use identifier, or > commons-email contains this code > > I propose creating a 'util' package within [lang]. This would contain > BitField This is fine. > StopWatch This seems borderline to me for [lang]. > XmlUtils ?? (maybe just the escaping) No. The [lang] component has to do with the *Java* language, not XML or HTML or any other language. XmlUtils has no business in [lang]. > > I propose creating an 'identifier' package within [lang]. This would contain > /identifier > > I propose deleting > Interpolator > > I propose adding to [lang] > WordWrapUtils No. Once you start talking about words, you're outside the scope of [lang]. This would be more in the scope of a component such as [text], since, if it were in the JDK, it would logically fall into java.text rather than java.lang (along with java.text.Format et al). -- Martin Cooper > > I propose clarifying the scope of [lang] to cover utilities and helpers in > both java.lang and java.util. > > Stephen > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
