interesting. I think if we had access to Gradle and Git longer in the past, we would have seen Tapestry as more small libraries in the first place. Certainly that's the approach I've been taking in my Clojure efforts.
On Saturday, December 6, 2014, Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo < thi...@arsmachina.com.br> wrote: > Hi! > > As I've mentioned some time ago, I realized the BeanModel classes from > tapestry-core would an awesome, easy-to-use, fast Java property reflection > library if it was a library of its own, specially POJO mapping and binding > ones like JAXB or Jackson. That's what I did today. ;) > > All this work was done on the 'beanmodel-split' branch. I invite everyone > to take a look and all feedback, constructive or destructive, will be most > welcome. If no one objects in the next couple of weeks, I'll merge it into > the master branch. > > I've created two new subprojects: BeanModel and Commons. Basically, the > BeanModel subproject is the set of classes and interfaces needed to obtain > BeanModel instances. The Commons one contains stuff needed by BeanModel, > but made more sense in a JAR of its own then stuffed inside the BeanModel > one. Now tapestry-ioc has a dependency on BeanModel, which has a dependency > on Commons. > > I did this refactoring taking extreme care on backward-compatibility and > changing or moving as little code as possible. Indeed, around a handful > files had actual code changes. Classes that were moved from tapestry-core > and tapestry-ioc to BeanModel or Commons are in the same package as before, > so no code using the BeanModel classes will be broken by this change > (assuming it has the BeanModel and Commons JARs in the classpath, of > course). Git detects it as file renames. I did have to refactor a couple > internal classes, specially InternalUtils, which had part of it broken off > to Commons' InternalCommonsUtils. I've also created BeanModelSourceBuilder > for making it easy to create BeanModelSource objects without Tapestry-IoC, > even its JavaDoc saying T-IoC is the recommended approach. > BeanModelSourceBuilderTest test it. > > Cheers! > > -- > Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer > http://machina.com.br > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! (971) 678-5210 http://howardlewisship.com @hlship
