Java News from Monday, September 1, 2008

The Apache Commons Group has released Commons BeanUtils 1.8.0. This provides some easier-to-use wrappers around Java's built-in Reflection and Introspection APIs. "BeanUtils 1.8.0 is binary compatible with version 1.7.0 and contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements." In particular:

• A new "generic" that delegates the individual component conversion to a Converter for the component type.
• Numeric Converters convert between numeric types and to and from Strings
• The SQL Date, Time and Timestamp converters now convert between Date/Calendar types and to and from Strings

BeanUtils is publishedunder the Apache License 2.0.