>On 1/17/06, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> This seems like a handly utility. Clay has something similar, PropUtils, >> that uses the ConvertUtils. I think we could refactor to use this >> utility. Is there a specific reason that you wanted to factor out Commons >> BeanUtils? > > >Yes ... it seems to be the source of some memory leaks from not always >getting cleaned up at runtime. Plus, when I develop on Windows, >commons-beanutils.jar gets left locked a lot, meaning you have to restart >your container to be able to do a clean rebuild. > >This doesn't help a lot right at the moment, because we still inherit the >dependency from Digester and the JSF implementation if its bundled. But >it's a step down the path of simplifying the dependency hierarchy for Shale, >especially in a JavaEE 5 world where the JSF implementation will already be >provided by the container.
That snapped in very nicely :-) Along the same lines, have you looked at the org.apache.shale.usecases.rolodex.GenericComparator? It might be a canidate for the core utils if we plugged in the FacesContext? >>Gary >Craig Gary
