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commons beanutils alternative

Hi all, I am looking for a commons beanutils alternative. The reason is that beanutils relies on commons-logging which is conflicting with existing libraries I am using.

I would like a small self-contained alternative which will cause no/minimal conflicts.

The main functionality I am after is nested property retrieval.

Thanks in advance, Steven

+1 A:

You may be able to resolve the conflict with commons-logging by using the alternate commons-logging bridge implementation provided by SFL4j.

Often times, replacing commons-logging.jar with jcl-over-slf4j.jar will immediately and permanently solve class loader issues related to commons logging.

Thilo 2010-10-15 06:15:05

I will give this a go first and let you know

Steven 2010-10-15 18:50:50

Did not help, just caused more dependency problems.

Steven 2010-10-27 02:36:15

+1 A:

Ended up writing my own mini beanutils to get around this dependency and removed commons-beanutils completely.

The SLF4J did not end up helping since it broke some other dependencies (damn you weblogic!).

My own implementation is probably slower since the commons-beanutils appears to cache some fetches to remove some reflective calls.

Msg me if your interested in getting the source code of my implementation.

Steven 2010-10-27 02:35:55

"My own implementation is probably slower since the commons-beanutils " Commons-beanutils is open-source. Maybe you just download the source, and rip out the calls to commons logging. OTOH, your code is probably not slower to a degree that makes any difference anyway.

Thilo 2010-10-27 04:33:17

I tried that but it ended up pulling in digest and other things as well. Just got a little bit too tedious and my solution was very small and easy anyway.

Steven 2010-10-27 04:38:06

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