On Tuesday, August 28, 2001, at 02:17 PM, James Strachan wrote:
> FWIW the betwixt subproject in the sandbox is an attempt to provide bean
> to
> XML mapping meta-data in a similar way to what the java.beans.BeanInfo and
> Introspector classes do for mapping a bean to properties & events.
>
> At the moment I'm focussing mostly on mapping a bean into XML so that XSLT
> and XPath can be done on them - though it wouldn't be that hard to make
> the
> mapping bidirectional. (Then we'd have the basis of a bidirectional bean
> <->
> XML serialization framework). So given a mapping of a bean <-> XML mapping
> via betwixt it could be possible to auto-generate digester rules that
> could
> turn the XML into the beans.
>
> Just a thought...
hi james
i've taken a quick look at betwixt (mainly with the aim of determining
whether your idea's viable) but there really isn't anything to get me
started.
any chance of help pointing me in right direction?
- robert
