New release of the Mapper framework

[Rey Francois <Fr...@capco.com>]

A new release of the Mapper framework is available on Ted Husted's site on
http://husted.com/about/struts/resources.htm. The Mapper framework can be
used for automating the process of validating/converting/transferring data
fields. Although the framework is independent from Struts itself, it can
easily be integrated in order to validate ActionForm beans. See the
following posting on this topic:
http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg02129.html.


In this new release:
 - documentation in the form of javadoc (start by the mapper package
javadoc). More documentation is still needed, notably on the validation rule
language itself, but that would be for a later release. Let me know if you
have any questions in the meantime.
 - simplified XML config file (new elements: declarations, rules; deleted
elements: nested-mapper)
 - nested mappers are now handled within the rules instead of a special XML
tag
 - ability to load multiple config files

There is still an impressive list of further development that could be done,
see the 'todo.xml' file. I hope I will get a chance to do most of them in
the near future (but if any of you is interested to participate...)

Questions/feedback: mailto:francois.rey@capco.com

Fr.

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