[ANN] New ActionForm-to-Value Object (and back) mapper

["Sobkowski, Andrej" <An...@emergis.com>]

Hello,

the new version of the Form-to-VO and VO-to-Form mapper is now available at 

http://www.mycgiserver.com/~andrej/technical/struts/struts.jsp

It allows you to perform in ONE line of code the mapping between

ExampleForm 
+getLastName:String
+setLastName(String)
+getDateOfBirth:String
+setDateOfBirth(String)
+getYearsOfJavaExperience:String
+setYearsOfJavaExperience(String)
+getEmailAddresses:String[]
+setEmailAddresses(String[])
+getChild:ChildForm
+setChild(ChildForm)
+getChildren:ChildForm[]
+setChildren(ChildForm[])

and

ExampleVO 
+getLastName:String
+setLastName(String)
+getDateOfBirth:Date
+setDateOfBirth(Date)
+getYearsOfJavaExperience:Integer
+setYearsOfJavaExperience(Integer)
+getEmailAddresses:String[]
+setEmailAddresses(String[])
+getChild:ChildVO
+setChild(ChildVO) 
+getChildren:ChildVO[]
+setChildren(ChildVO[])

by simply writing FormToVOMapper.map(exampleForm, new ExampleVO()) or
VOToFormMapper.map(exampleVO, new ExampleForm()).

New features/bug fixes:
- Date format is now configurable via System properties
- fixed support for nested elements
- added support for Boolean (any new type can be added in less than 2
minutes)

Future enhancements:
- support for primitive types
- support for nested Collections

Documentation is extensive both on the HTML page and in the code. JUnit
tests are provided with the distribution.

It's still a "0.9beta" release because I wanted to get the enhancements in
before the 1.0 but the code has been running with no problems in our project
for 4 months now.

Any feedback is appreciated :)

Andrej