On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> "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?
>
Sure (Struts would appreciate it if any additions didn't break the APIs
:-) ... what did you have in mind?
>
>
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>
Craig
