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This project provides common utitlities to for POJOs.

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/* Copyright (c) The m-m-m Team, Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 */
/**
 * Provides the API for dealing with {@link net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.api.Pojo}s. 
 * POJO API POJO is a shortcut for Plain Old Java Object and more or less means any java object. While the java
 * beans specification is generally a good idea to follow, it is sometimes too restrictive. E.g. you might want to name
 * a boolean getter with the prefix "has" or want to have a primitive type as setter argument while the getter has the
 * according object type. Using this utilities you are NOT limited by such restrictions. 

 * Further the generic type-system introduced with Java 5 is quite complex and NOT properly supported by existing
 * bean-utilities (see {@link net.sf.mmm.util.reflect.api.GenericType} for further details). 

 * Instead of the {@link java.beans.Introspector} for java-beans or
 * commons-beanutils, you can use the advanced introspection offered
 * by {@link net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.descriptor.api.PojoDescriptorBuilder}. 

 * Further there is support to traverse a complete object-web spanned by an initial
 * {@link net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.api.Pojo} based on a {@link net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.path.api.PojoPath} (similar to XPath for
 * XML) using the {@link net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.path.api.PojoPathNavigator}. 

 * A simple way to create new instances of {@link net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.api.Pojo}s is offered by the
 * {@link net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.api.PojoFactory}.
 */
package net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.api;