"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>
> > "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> > >
> > > One nitpick along with my +1 -- the property setting stuff relies on the
> > > code that is now in "beanutils" in Commons already.
> > >
> >
> > Would it make any sense to move it into beanutils?
> >
>
> You mean Digester itself? I don't think so, if we are talking about
> fine-grained components. Consider:
> * Beanutils is very narrowly focused on low-level introspection based
> functionality, and can be used underneath multiple higher level APIs.
> * Struts uses beanutils separately from the indirect use via Digester
> already, to support the property-related custom tags it has.
> * Anyone using ExtendedProperties (nee Configuration) for config files
> instead of XML-based files doesn't need the extra baggage of XML
> parsing in the beanutils component.
> * Anyone not using XML at all would certainly *not* appreciate adding
> an XML parser dependency to use the basic beanutils stuff.
A 'No' would have sufficed :) Good - then can we broaden the 'Digester'
package?
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