> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Benson [mailto:gudnabr...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:57 AM > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [lang] 3.0, what's in; what's out > > > I'd like to add a TypeUtils to the reflect subpackage, to provide as much > help as possible for discovering type parameters of generic types. I
I thought that type erasure made this impossible? Can you define what the class would do please? Thanks, Gary > recently commented in ClassUtils that a 3.0, Java5-compatible assignable > test should assume autoboxing == true (since one would think the > assignable test would normally be used in preparation for e.g. a > reflection-based method call autoboxing should have been a safe assumption > to begin with, but anyway...). > > -Matt > > --- On Sat, 3/14/09, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [lang] 3.0, what's in; what's out > > To: "Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apache.org> > > Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 4:21 AM > > Starting up a thread for cleanup > > discussions on Lang. > > > > I've removed the enum (was a blocker on JDK 5) and enums > > (people need > > to use real enums now) packages from Lang's trunk and moved > > them to a > > lang-backcompat sibling component. I've not made it a > > branch, it lives > > at the same level as trunk and will need its future to be > > decided. > > > > An EnumUtils class has been added to the main lang > > package. > > > > I also think the exception package should go. Again - the > > JDK has > > support for this now and there's no strong value in Lang > > having an > > alternative to stop people thinking about JDK 1.5. The > > ExceptionUtils > > class should move up to the main lang package and needs to > > have the > > Nestable Lang code removed from it. Presumably it still has > > value. > > > > Some of the Date code is tempting to delete. Either due to > > buginess, > > or general 'this isn't that cool' ness. > > > > JVMRandom should go. I'm not convinced it's had much use. > > > > IDKey should move to package scoping - I've not seen an > > argument made > > yet for it being public. > > > > Fraction is up for debate. Do we cede this to Commons Math. > > Sure it > > might add another jar to some people's code, but probably > > good for > > them to be more aware of Math. > > > > WordUtils and StringEscapeUtils both strike me as > > 'desirable but > > flawed'. We should consider overhauls. > > > > The Security requiring stuff in builder for reflection > > needs to go > > away imo. Makes it less than useful. > > > > We need a PackageUtils in reflect. > > > > We need to consider if there are any annotations that are > > valuable to > > be pseudo-standard. > > > > I'm still partial to a RegexUtils. > > > > Plus general generifying, varargs, autoboxing. > > > > Deletion of all deprecated methods/classes. > > > > And the various other backwards incompatible changes that > > people have > > been requesting. > > > > Hen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
