On Wed, 30 May 2001, William Shulman wrote:
>
> > The problem with your suggestion of implementing this using the Struts
> > BeanUtils is that it has been deprecated because its been donated to the
> > Jakarta Commons project. I understand Struts will be changed to use the
> > Jakarta Commons version in 1.1. BeanUtils are "utility methods for
> > populating JavaBeans" and the question is would we be able to persuade
> > Jakarta Commons to include this when it doesn't have anything to do with
> > JavaBeans?
>
> This should not be that big of an issue. AND, DynamicPropertyMappers
> (or whatever we want to call them) has everything to do with JavaBeans in
> my opinion.
>
The reason that BeanUtils and friends are in commons is because they were
already much better than alternative attempts at this approach. Don't
worry about commons accepting dynamic properties -- that will just make
these routines 'more better'.
> -will
>
Craig
