--- robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PROPOSAL: eliminate the core dependency on commons-collections
>
> rationale - this will not only eliminate a sizable dependency for many
> products depending on beanutils but also reduce chances of
> compatibility issues with the various versions of collections.
>
> PLAN:
>
> 1 add org.apache.commons.collections.ArrayStack and
> org.apache.commons.collections.Buffer source to beanutils (these are
> required by the public API)
+1 if this is a temporary solution for backwards compatibility and the
duplicate classes will be removed in the next release when the deprecated
API is removed.
>
> 2 replace the references to FastHashMap with a private static
> implementation. consider whether to replace this altogether.
+1 on replacing altogether. IMO, any Java class that states it's not
cross-platform in the javadocs should not be used. Replacing with a
standard HashMap would be good.
>
> 3 factor out a new bean-collections jar under extras/bean-collections
> containing the (cool) implementations of collections stuffs using
> beanutils bean-magic.
+1
David
>
> i've made a start on this work (so if anyone has any reasonable
> objections, now would be a very good time to state them :) but i'd be
> willing to change if anyone comes up with any improvements to this
> plan.
>
> - robert
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