I'd like to see an extension of the bean references to use strings as well as integers.
For example, you can currently use
<bean:write name="user" property="fullName"/>
and
<bean:write name="user" property="cart[0].item"/>
I'd like to see something like
<bean:write name="user" property="detail['full_name']"/>
to be the same as
<jsp:useBean id="user" scope="session"
class="au.com.cyberlancers.managers.database.User"/>
<%= user.getDetail("full_name") %>
I realise this breaks the java bean mold of how beans work, but I (will be) use(ing)
this quite
heavily in the generation of dynamic forms and data. Internally to the user object, the
detail is a HashMap, although any random lookup collection would work so long as
the interfaces are correct.
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