Ya, you might be right -- I may be trying to over-engineer it a bit. The key thing I must be able to do is treat numeric properties differently to strings: so that 10 > 9 but "10" < "9" in database queries.
I'm working on something which I'll probably spin off as LGPL or BSD if it works out. Joe. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Sunburned Surveyor<sunburned.surve...@gmail.com> wrote: > OpenJUMP does something similar for the Task class with Java2XML. I > don't know if this will solve your specific problem however, it deals > mostly with the serialization issue. > > Why not use some type of Map subclass with a simple properties file? > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Joe Desbonnet<j...@galway.net> wrote: >> This is not strictly a JPP/Jump questions, but Jump has this >> functionality and maybe some developers here have some insight into >> this problem. >> >> I've got a project which is being distributed to several clients. Each >> client requires a few additional customized properties to be added to >> one of the core entity classes. >> >> I would like to keep the code and database schema 100% identical for >> all clients. So I am hoping to achieve via a configuration file which >> will define additional client-specific properties. The core entity >> class could then have a getAttribute(), setAttribute() method etc. >> >> I'm looking for a Java library (or other resource) that will handle >> attaching user defined properties (String, Integer, Enumerations, user >> undefined types etc) to a entity class without having to modify code >> or database schema. On the surface this seems rather simple to >> implement, but the devil in in the details (eg handling searches). >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joe. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
