Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

2018-03-07 Thread Remi Forax
- Mail original - > De: "Stephen Colebourne" > À: "jigsaw-dev" > Envoyé: Mercredi 7 Mars 2018 13:23:10 > Objet: Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module > What is needed is an abstraction that can work for all sorts of > data-like classe

Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

2018-03-07 Thread Stephen Colebourne
ing a direct interface. > > Rémi > > - Mail original - >> De: "Guillaume Smet" >> À: "Stephen Colebourne" >> Cc: "jigsaw-dev" >> Envoyé: Mardi 6 Mars 2018 18:45:21 >> Objet: Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

2018-03-07 Thread Remi Forax
- Mail original - > De: "Guillaume Smet" > À: "Stephen Colebourne" > Cc: "jigsaw-dev" > Envoyé: Mardi 6 Mars 2018 18:45:21 > Objet: Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module > Hi Stephen, > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:29 PM,

Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

2018-03-06 Thread Guillaume Smet
Hi Stephen, On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > It had been my hope that we might see a replacement for the java.beans > package. I drew up a rough prototype here: > https://github.com/jodastephen/property-alliance > based on previous work in Joda-Beans. More info here:

Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

2018-03-06 Thread Guillaume Smet
Hi Alan, On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > There aren't any concrete proposals on the table at this time but it is > something that will need to be looked at again. > OK. That's what I suspected, unfortunately. I think we will probably be able to get rid of our Introspector

Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

2018-03-06 Thread Alan Bateman
On 06/03/2018 13:52, Guillaume Smet wrote: Hi, (Previously sent via an unsubscribed email address, sorry about that) The java.beans package is part of the java.desktop module which is a bit unfortunate as the package contains quite a few classes useful to manipulate beans and dragging all the d

Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

2018-03-06 Thread Stephen Colebourne
It had been my hope that we might see a replacement for the java.beans package. I drew up a rough prototype here: https://github.com/jodastephen/property-alliance based on previous work in Joda-Beans. More info here: http://jodastephen.github.io/property-alliance/ If an interface-based design we

java.beans package in java.desktop module

2018-03-06 Thread Guillaume Smet
Hi, (Previously sent via an unsubscribed email address, sorry about that) The java.beans package is part of the java.desktop module which is a bit unfortunate as the package contains quite a few classes useful to manipulate beans and dragging all the desktop classes with them is far from ideal.