[xdoclet-dev] ActionScript conversion plugin

[Joe Berkovitz]

Hi xdoclet2 developers,

I work at Allurent, Inc. in Cambridge MA (www.allurent.com).  We have 
developed an xdoclet2 plugin to generate Macromedia ActionScript classes 
from master Java class definitions, using doclet tags to provide a few 
minimal codegen parameters.  For developers using Flex or Flash to write 
client applications that exchange serialized data with Java web 
applications, this is a tedious and error-prone task that is very well 
suited to code generation.  There is broad interest in the Flex/Flash 
community in such a tool.

So: I would very much like to contribute the plugin back into the 
xdoclet2 source base, thus making it publicly available.  Is there 
interest from the xdoclet2 team in accepting it and maintaining it?

The plugin is extremely simple, about 50% of the complexity of the 
beaninfo plugin.  There are unit tests, of course :).  The plugin does 
the following:

- for JavaBeans, generates ActionScript classes with correspondingly 
typed properties

- generates corresponding ActionScript constant definitions for public 
static final members of Java classes

- generates a "static dependencies" linkage-glue class forcing the 
generated classes to be linked into a Flex/Flash application.

Thanks...

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