Nathan Bubna wrote:
Nathan Green said:
I hate giving you more work to do, but 1.1 final seems to be out, but it doesn't look like any work has started on 1.2, and I don't see my code in CVS. Maybe I don't know where to look for it.
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Nathan Bubna wrote:
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i'll see about adding this after we release 1.1 final.
d'oh! my apologies, nathan, i had forgotten about this. i did not mean to neglect it.
however, upon reconsideration, i don't believe there is really a place for this tool among the GenericTools. this is not because of any fault or lack of usefulness in the code, but rather, because commons-lang already provides a utility (which can be directly used as a tool) that does most of what your ClassTool does.
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/api/org/apache/commons/lang/ClassUtils.html
Well then I suppose I need to contact get on the Commons mailing list. The really important function [instanceOf(Object,String)] doesn't seem to have an equivalent in ClassUtils.
so far, it has been a defacto policy to avoid duplicating functionality easily available in commons packages. i have similarly turned down a number of suggestions for a StringTool because of the existence of commons-lang's StringUtils. still, thank you again for the contribution. even just having it and the list discussion about it archived will be a help for people needing these functions.
Nathan Bubna [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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