Apache commons betwixt 0.8 src

This package contains the main betwixt introspection code. XMLIntrospector produces a XMLBeanInfo instance specifying how the introspected class maps to xml elements and attributes. The AttributeDescriptor and ElementDescriptor classes detail how members of a bean map to xml attributes and elements respectively.

This package contains the Digester and associated rules and helper classes for parsing the XMLBeanInfo metadata from an XML file format.

Example usage of Betwixt to parse XML documents compatible with the Rich Site Summary format used by many newsfeeds.

This package contains the system which extracts values from beans. The mapping is created by class introspection but the Expression implementations in this package inspect a particular bean instance and extract the values used to render the bean as xml.

Package contains classes dealing directly with the reading and writing of beans.

These classes use the Betwixt introspection system to determine how a bean should be mapped to xml. The xml->object reader uses Digester to implement the mapping.

This package is home to IDGenerator implementations.

Betwixt can generate ID and IDREF attributes for the elements it creates. By setting the IDGenerator property on the bean writer, a user can customize the algorithm used to generate these id's.

This package contains the standard implementations of IDGenerator that ship with Betwixt. Users who want to create their own implementations can use these classes as examples.

Package contains strategy and configuration classes used by reading only.

This package contains various plugins that can be used with XMLIntrospector to customize it's caching behaviour (or programmatically modify the XmlBeanInfo finding).

WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL Contains classes that generate XML (w3c) schema from Betwixt descriptors. This is aimed towards integration with JaxMe.

Note: this code is still experimental and the probability is high that the interfaces will need to change in the future.

This package contains a variety of plugin Strategy patterns that can be used to customize the default behaviours.

Implementations of the NameMapper interface can be used to set the strategy used by XMLIntrospector to determine how to convert bean and property names into element and attribute names.

Implementations of the PluralStemmer interface allows the strategy used by XMLIntrospector to find which plural method maps to a singular property name. This strategy is used to match composite properties to adder-methods. How plurals are constructed is langauge-dependent. A typical usage for custom strategies is to provide support for plural patterns in different languages.