On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Joonas Pulakka <
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> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering what external dependencies BeanUtils actually has. On the main
> page
http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/ it's mentioned
> that commons-beanutils.jar has an optional dependency on Collections. What
> does "optional" mean? Here
You need Commons Collections if you use any of the following classes:
BeanMap
BeanPredicate
BeanPropertyValueChangeClosure
BeanPropertyValueEqualsPredicate
BeanToPropertyValueTransformer
>
http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/dependencies.html it additionally says
> Logging is a dependency. And then, here is stated that both Collections and
> Logging packages are a _requirement_:
>
http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/apidocs/org/apache/commons/beanutils/package-summary.html#overview.dependenciesThat page is out of date wrt to Commons Collections - patches welcome
> Still, I've done some (very basic) successful experiments with BeanUtils
> with neither Collections nor Logging on the Classpath. What's the deal?
I'm surprised that you didn't have any issues without commons logging
since some of the core features of beanutils use them.
Niall
> Best Regards,
> Joonas
>
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