The "JPath" component supports XPath-expression navigation across trees of
JavaBeans, so you can say things like:
"employee/addresses/home/zipCode"
to do the equivalent of
getEmployee().getAddresses().get("home").getZipCode()
This will be very useful in scripted environments (such as workflows or
JSP custom tags) and other places where you want to treat an existing set
of JavaBeans like you would treat an XML document.
This is a proposal to promote the code in the "jpath" directory in
jakarta-commons-sandbox into jakarta-commons proper so that development
can proceed towards an initial Commons release (and other packages can
rely on it).
The name change (back to the original name of JXPath) is to avoid
confusion with the "JPath" code that is included in the JSP Standard Tag
Library early access release (under jakarta-taglibs) which is somewhat
similar in function but completely different in internals.
Initial committers will be Dmitri Plotnikov (original author) and Craig
McClanahan. Others are, of course, welcome to participate.
Votes, please?
Craig (who votes +1)
