[Springframework-rcp-dev] Beans

[Andy D. <an...@ma...>]

I've noticed quite a bit of support in spring-rcp for JavaBeans and properties 
(binding things to a property, setting up input rules for a property, etc).  
This is great.  However, there are times when we work at a more "meta" level 
than JavaBeans in a UI.  For example, some people use Maps of name/value 
pairs instead of JavaBeans, others might use DynaBeans (from Apache), and 
others might use service data objects, where you retreive property values via 
get(propertyName) or set(propertyName, value) calls.  I believe it would be 
worth it to keep spring-rcp bean/property access generic enough that it could 
be used with any kind of "object with properties" concept, and not tied to 
JavaBeans alone.  It could be something as simple as some sort of 
"PropertyAccessor" interface with a default  JavaBeans implementation.

Thoughts or comments?