[beanutils] [PROPOSAL] create optional package

[robert burrell donkin]

we've talked before about removing the dependency of beanutils on 
collections. there are two parts to this, the first is to come up with 
a solution to the issue of fasthashmap, the second is what to do about 
BeanPropertyValueChangeClosure, BeanPropertyValueEqualsPredicate and 
BeanToPropertyValueTransformer.

i'd like to propose that we solve the second problem by a home for 
optional classes with non-core dependencies and move these classes into 
it.

i'd prefer to use a maven-friendly subdirectory called 'optional' with 
commons/beanutils with a complete maven-friendly directory structure. 
for distribution, we create a beanutils-optional.jar but include that 
within the main distribution (in a similar way to ant).

comments please :)

- robert

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