Re: cvs commit: jakarta-struts/src/share/org/apache/struts/utilBeanUtils.java

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

+1

"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Incze Lajos wrote:
> 
> > >   Port a fix from the "commons" version of this module (which Struts will
> > >   ultimately migrate to when the commons version is released).
> > >
> >
> > Just some questions. Will the beanutils be facotred out from struts
> > or they will remain here (with some sort of sync mechanism)? Also,
> > are there other candidates to be factored out to commons (e.g.
> > digester)?                                                  incze
> >
> 
> We haven't talked much here on STRUTS-DEV about the "Commons" project -- I
> suggest that people take a look:
>         http://jakarta.apache.org/commons
> and subscribe to the JAKARTA-COMMONS mailing list if they are
> interested.  The basic idea is to make it easier to share components of
> existing Jakarta subprojects with the other subprojects (and vice
> versa).  My initial contributions have been the bean utilities classes and
> the Digester.
> 
> IMHO, we're too close to a 1.0 final release to go mucking around with
> APIs people are currently depending on.  Therefore, the approach I'd like
> to take is:
> 
> * For Struts 1.0 continue to use the internal versions of beanutils
>   and digester, but deprecate them (manually synching changes as
>   appropriate).
> 
> * For Struts 1.1, remove the internal versions and migrate to the
>   new ones in Commons.
> 
> * If any additional pieces of Struts get factored out, follow the same
>   basic strategy.
> 
> It is also possible that some of the functionality on the 1.1 TODO list
> will be implemented (at least partially) as Commons packages, to the
> extent that it is general purpose in nature and not dependent on the
> Struts framework.
> 
> Craig

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