java.beans package in java.desktop module

[Guillaume Smet]

Hi Stephen,

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org>
wrote:

> It had been my hope that we might see a replacement for the java.beans
> package. I drew up a rough prototype here:
>  https://github.com/jodastephen/property-alliance
> based on previous work in Joda-Beans. More info here:
>  http://jodastephen.github.io/property-alliance/
>
> If an interface-based design were adopted, it could be implemented by
> the existing JavaBeans code and also by future language changes such
> as records (data classes), while the API could be used far more
> broadly, such as in Hibernate or EL.
>
> Sadly, I haven't had the time or energy to progress this, but the need is
> there.


Thanks for sharing. It indeed sound like something worth pursuing.

Having a new API in the JDK indeed seems the only way out for the
java.beans issue.

-- 
Guillaume