java.beans package in java.desktop module

[Remi Forax]

As Stephen said, with the introduction of the Pattern Matching in the near future, an API to extract the values from an object (the de-constructor API) or at least from a record object will have to be created, but it may be based on method handles, so perhaps not using a direct interface.

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----- Mail original -----
> De: "Guillaume Smet" <guillaume at hibernate.org>
> À: "Stephen Colebourne" <scolebourne at joda.org>
> Cc: "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mardi 6 Mars 2018 18:45:21
> Objet: Re: java.beans package in java.desktop module

> 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