Commons Beanutils example source code file (bean-collections.xml)
The Commons Beanutils bean-collections.xml source code
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<title>Commons
<author email="dev@commons.apache.org">Commons Documentation Team
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<section name="Commons BeanUtils Bean Collections">
<p>
Dealing with collections of beans is a common feature of development in Java.
A lot of time is spent creating bean-specific implementations
for standard collection manipulators such as functors and comparators.
</p>
<p>
<code>BeanUtils Bean collections is a library intended to
improve developer productivity by using sophisticated bean introspection
(from <code>BeanUtils)
to allow general library classes to be used (rather than creating bean specific
implementation classes).
</p>
<p>
But won't this be slower? Yes, reflection is slower than direct references
but in real life applications, this is typically insignificant. So why not use
these classes to speed development and then substitute faster implementations only
where the profiler indicates there is a problem :)
</p>
<subsection name='Quick-Quick Guide To Functors'>
<p>
Many of the classes in <code>bean-collections are functor implementations
specialized for bean properties. This is a very quick guide (aimed to let java developer
know why functors make for elegant code).
</p>
<p>
The word <code>functor is mathematical in origin but comes into object oriented
development from functional and logic coding. In Java terms, a functor
is a function that is encapsulated as an object (and so can be manipulated as an object).
This allows elegant, concise and powerful techniques to be used. For example,
<a href='http://commons.apache.org/collections'>Commons Collections
contains utilities that allow functions (as functors) to be easily applied to
Collections.
</p>
<p>
This is actually pretty useful when it comes to collections of beans. It's a common
problem to want to extract information from a collection of beans or to change all properties
to a particular value. Functors can be a particularly elegant way to do this. So try them!
You might just like them!
</p>
<p>
For more information about functors, please read the introduction to the
<a href='http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/functor/'>Commons Functor component.
</p>
</subsection>
</section>
<section name='Releases'>
<p>
BeanUtils Bean-Collections is distributed as an optional jar within the main
beanutils distribution. For details, see the
<a href='http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/index.html'>main BeanUtils website
</p>
</section>
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