[jira] Closed: (BEEHIVE-528) Compliance with javabean spec

["Zach Smith (JIRA)" <be...@incubator.apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEEHIVE-528?page=all ]
     
Zach Smith closed BEEHIVE-528:
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verified that MANIFEST.MF shows "Java-Bean: true"

> Compliance with javabean spec
> -----------------------------
>
>          Key: BEEHIVE-528
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEEHIVE-528
>      Project: Beehive
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Controls
>     Versions: V1Alpha, V1Beta, V1
>  Environment: All env's
> I tested on win2k , x86
>     Reporter: Mridul Muralidharan
>     Assignee: Zach Smith
>     Priority: Critical
>      Fix For: V1
>  Attachments: javabean.diff
>
> Essentially two issues :
> 1) The manifest entry for a Control in the control jar is not correct.
> 2) The serialization of the ControlBean is failing.
> Here is the email exchange I had with Kyle about this in the alias.
> Thanks
> --
> Mridul,
> The intention is that Controls should be 100% conformant with the
> JavaBeans spec.  You should be able to do things like:
> - load, introspect, and use the Control bean class in any JavaBeans aware editor
> - use a Control anywhere a JavaBean can be used (like <jsp:useBean> JSP tag)
> If there are areas where they are not, then these should be filed as
> high-priority JIRA issues.  I checked the JAR spec, and "Java-Beans:"
> is the correct manifest attribute, so this is definitely an
> oversight/bug.
> Both this and the serialization issue (serializability of all
> code-generated or supporting runtime classes is definitely a reqt too)
> should be opened as "Critical/fix by V1" issues.
> Your Controls questions and feedback are proving to be invaluable....
> keep 'em coming!  :) 
> -- Kyle
> On 4/14/05, Mridul Muralidharan <Mr...@sun.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >>   Since ControlBean is essentially a javabean , I wanted to see the
> >> interoperatability of controls with a pure javabean env.
> >> For this , I got the BDK1.1
> >> (http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/software/bdk_download.html - yep
> >> , I know this is old !) and tried to load a simple control jar in it.
> >> I had to modify the BDK code to also accept "JavaBeans: true" as a
> >> javabean (it had a check for only "Java-Beans" - btw , is this valid ?
> >> Have not checked the spec yet on this).
> >> What I found was that when I try to serialize a control after having
> >> customized it , it throws an exception indicating that it cant be
> >> serialized.
> >> On some digging I found that this was 'cos
> >> "org.apache.beehive.controls.api.properties.PropertyKey" had a field
> >> "Method  _getMethod;".
> >> Now , since Method is not serializable , this fails serialization of the
> >> entire ControlBean.
> >> 
> >> So question would be whether this is the intended behavior - as in
> >> Controls were not expected to interoperate with a plain vanilla javabean
> >> env ?
> >> (From what I have seen till now , beehive seems to go to great pains to
> >> maintain interoperability and is not just using and riding over the
> >> javabeans framework).
> >> If it is expected to interoperate, then I guess this would be a bug.
> >> 
> >> Any thoughts , comments , help would be greatly appreciated !
> >> 
> >> Thanks and Regards,
> >> Mridul
> >>

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