[BEANUTILS-278] Remove copied Collections classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Niall Pemberton
• Created: 18/May/07 14:22
• Updated: 05/Dec/13 21:05

Description

The following 4 Commons Collections classes were copied into BeanUtils so that the dependency on Commons Collections could be removed (these were included in the BeanUtils 1.7.0 release)

ArrayStack.java
Buffer.java
BufferUnderflowException.java
FastHashMap.java

See the following thread for the original reasoning:
http://tinyurl.com/yvma2q
http://tinyurl.com/2hs3hp

Recent discussion thread on this issue is here:
http://tinyurl.com/2vyuk8

Of the above four classes only FastHashMap is used within BeanUtils (and is part of the public API) - not sure why the other classes were included, but it may be because downstream systems such as Struts depend on them (which also removed its Commons Collections when it moved to BeanUtils 1.7.0). Some (but not all) of the BeanUtils public API which exposes FastHashMap was deprecated in the BeanUtils 1.7.0 release.

Issue Links

• is related to: DIGESTER-115 Digester depends on BeanUtils copies of Collections classes