Utilities for bean development.

Usage

<project ...>
...
  <dependency>
    <groupId>dev.orne</groupId>
    <artifactId>beans</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.0</version>
  </dependency>
...
</project>

Features

Provides utilities for implementation and management of POJO Java Beans.

• Bean identities

  Abstraction mechanism for entity identities on beans, also known as “Primary ID” or “Primary Key”.

• Bean references

  Annotation based mechanism to declare and validate bean based references to unique entity references.

• Apache Commons BeanUtils converters

  Adds extra supported conversions to Apache Commons BeanUtils.

• Experimental SPI based Jackson polymorphism

  Adds SPI based name based polymorphism to Jackson.