--- robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi david > > i did take a look at this a little while ago and i'm fairly positive > about > the proposal. but there's a huge backlog of beanutils stuff that really > needs looking at and thinking about (including your proposal). > > on issue (that i think has been raised in the past) is that the factory > is > not just about beans - it seems to me like a more general utility class. > i' > ve cc'd lang so that they can help to settle this issue. > > comments anyone?
I proposed it in BeanUtils because JavaBeans must have a no-arg constructor to be dynamically created. ObjectFactory relies on this fact to create instances. I agree that Lang could also be a suitable place for ObjectFactory. David > > - robert > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 05:22 AM, David Graham wrote: > > > Some time ago I opened an enhancement ticket > > > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18087 > > > > for a BeanFactory class. Currently it lives in the Mapper sandbox > project > > as ObjectFactory but, IMHO, it really belongs in a bean oriented > package > > like BeanUtils. The whole point of the class is to allow configurable > > (via a Map) object creation. You pass it a logical name, it gives you > an > > instance of some Object. It takes all the pain out of dynamic object > > creation and is crucial to what packages like Mapper do. > > > > Anyways, I'd appreciate it if a BeanUtils committer would comment on > this. > > As always, I'll support the code should it make it into BeanUtils (it > > already has some test cases :-). > > > > Source: > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons- > > > sandbox/mapper/src/share/org/apache/commons/mapper/util/ObjectFactory.java? > > rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > > > > Javadoc: > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/mapper/apidocs/org/apache/commons/ > > mapper/util/ObjectFactory.html > > > > Thanks, > > David > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
