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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:48:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [sandbox] Component ideas
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--- Henri Yandell <flamefew@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Matt Benson
> <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > My component ideas:
> >
> >  * I am still interested in incubating Morph as
> another
> >  shot at Commons-convert, though I'm not sure how
> it
> >  will be received given its overlap with
> BeanUtils, to
> >  which Niall has been giving quite some attention
> >  lately.
> 
> It'd be interesting to know if Niall still thinks
> BeanUtils has lots
> of life. I was pondering MethodUtils the other day
> and how it 'should'
> be in Lang [I was looking for invokeStaticMethod in
> Lang and after a
> while realized it was in Beanutils].

+1 to MethodUtils in Lang.  I actually never noticed
MethodUtils when I used to use BeanUtils and was
poised to do a grant of some similar code from my Java
Object DSL project...

> 
> +1 to the idea of Morph. It's gone further than
> Convert did.

It may be that there is room for both Morph and
BeanUtils.  There is overlap, but the emphases are
maybe switched, and the projects' respective
architectures are quite different IMHO.

> 
> >  * I am for all intents and purposes clear to
> release a
> >  flat file processing library I have developed for
> my
> >  employer.  I'll follow up with a code dump soon,
> but
> >  the basic idea is that many Java developers still
> have
> >  to deal with flat file I/O for integration with
> legacy
> >  systems, and until the recent release of the
> Spring
> >  batch stuff I had never seen the problem
> addressed
> >  with any great amount of thought.  My package
> includes
> >  a DSL declaration language for flat files that is
> >  superficially akin to COBOL copybooks, that being
> my
> >  language of origin, so to speak.  It also
> implements
> >  Morph's *Reflector interfaces for easy
> transformation
> >  to/from Java object graphs.
> 
> Probably replaces a tiny bit I had then :)
> 
>
http://www.osjava.org/genjava/multiproject/gj-core/apidocs/com/generationjava/io/FixedWidthReader.html

Yes, from looking at this page I don't think you'll
mind my saying my proposal includes much more
functionality.  :)

> 
> again, +1.
> 
> >  * Finally, I'd like to create a component whose
> >  principal component is a DSL interpreter for
> tersely
> >  represented Java object mappings.  I haven't
> finished
> >  planning the entire model, but my intent is to
> tie an
> >  object parsing context to an arbitrary Map
> instance.
> >  This would be a from-scratch reimplementation of
> >  another $work project, whose source code I will
> also
> >  be free to release, but it is my belief that only
> >  certain small pieces of that existing code
> (probably <
> >  5 classes) would be necessary for the rewrite.
> >  Because of this I'm not sure if this is more a
> sandbox
> >  with a grant of some code that -might- be used,
> or an
> >  incubating project with a beginning "scratch"
> >  codebase.  IF we get something along the lines of
> >  Incubator Commons as discussed the distinction
> might
> >  not be very significant.
> 
> Grant and Sandbox I think.
> 
> With an Incubator Commons, I think an expectation
> would be that there
> was not lots of development to do for a 1.0.

Thanks,
Matt

> 
> Hen
> 
>
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