The only problem with the methods from MethodUtils moving to ClassUtils is the statement in the JavaDoc for the ClassUtils class. The ClassUtils class "Operates on classes without using reflection." I don't know why that restriction was placed on the class in the first place, but JavaDocs are easy to change. :-)
-----Original Message----- From: James Carman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:22 AM To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List'; 'Dion Gillard' Subject: RE: [beanutils] attention beanutils committers! The only problem I would have with it (and this might be a stretch) is that it sort of goes against the nature of beans, static methods. The BeanUtils package is for dealing with JavaBean-like objects. The MethodUtils class (or the methdods in it) really belongs in the Commons Lang project, as it really doesn't pertain to JavaBeans per se. It's a language-level utility class for finding methods and stuff (that's the technical term, "stuff"). I could actually see all of the methods in BeanUtils moving to the ClassUtils class in Commons Lang. -----Original Message----- From: Dion Gillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:56 AM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [beanutils] attention beanutils committers! The first one seems reasonable, and I agree with your comment on possible issue with Object[] and Class[] clashing. On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:18:13 +1300, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > It would seem that the number of active beanutils committers has > shrunk significantly. > > Firstly, is there anyone who can spare 10 minutes to review these two > patches, and give a +1 (or not) to their inclusion in beanutils? I > think both are appropriate, but as I'm not a regular beanutils > committer I would like someone to second this. > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33979 > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33980 > > The submitter of the patches seems keen, and I think we should try to > encourage that sort of thing! If no-one steps up to offer an opinion I > will assume *I'm* the new beanutils maintainer team and commit the > patch (well, once a few minor issues have been addressed). > > Sorry I can't provide a mail-archive link to the email threads on > commons-dev in which these patches were discussed; MARC does not > appear to be working at the moment. > > I have also noticed that the number of outstanding bugzilla entries > for beanutils is growing; the poor library is looking a little > neglected. I think it would be nice if people could spare a little > time to address these. I'm happy to be one of them, but would feel > lonely doing it all on my own. > > Note that I'm going to be away for three weeks very shortly, and don't > know if I'll have internet access. I wanted to draw some attention to > these items before I left.. > > Cheers, > > Simon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.multitask.com.au/people/dion/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
