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public class Employee {
        public Address getAddress(String type);
        public void setAddress(String type, Address address);
        public Employee getSubordinate(int index);
        public void setSubordinate(int index, Employee subordinate);
        public String getFirstName();
        public void setFirstName(String firstName);
        public String getLastName();
        public void setLastName(String lastName);
    }

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    Employee employee = ...;
    String firstName = (String)PropertyUtils.getSimpleProperty(employee, "firstName");
    String lastName = (String)PropertyUtils.getSimpleProperty(employee, "lastName");
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    PropertyUtils.setSimpleProperty(employee, "firstName", firstName);
    PropertyUtils.setSimpleProperty(employee, "lastName", lastName);

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    Employee employee = ...;
    int index = ...;
    String name = "subordinate[" + index + "]";
    Employee subordinate = (Employee)PropertyUtils.getIndexedProperty(employee, name);
 
    Employee employee = ...;
    int index = ...;
    Employee subordinate = (Employee)PropertyUtils.getIndexedProperty(employee, "subordinate", index);

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    Employee employee = ...;
    Address address = ...;
    PropertyUtils.setMappedProperty(employee, "address(home)", address);
 
    Employee employee = ...;
    Address address = ...;
    PropertyUtils.setMappedProperty(employee, "address", "home", address);

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    String city = (String)PropertyUtils.getNestedProperty(employee, "address(home).city");

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    Employee employee = ...;
    String city = (String) PropertyUtils.getProperty(employee,"subordinate[3].address(home).city");

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    DynaProperty[] props = new DynaProperty[]{
        new DynaProperty("address", java.util.Map.class),
        new DynaProperty("subordinate", mypackage.Employee[].class),
        new DynaProperty("firstName", String.class),
        new DynaProperty("lastName",  String.class)
      };
    BasicDynaClass dynaClass = new BasicDynaClass("employee", null, props);
 
    DynaBean employee = dynaClass.newInstance();
    employee.set("address", new HashMap());
    employee.set("subordinate", new mypackage.Employee[0]);
    employee.set("firstName", "Fred");
    employee.set("lastName", "Flintstone");

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Connection conn = ...;
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select account_id, name from customers");
Iterator rows = (new ResultSetDynaClass(rs)).iterator();
 
while (rows.hasNext()) {
     DynaBean row = (DynaBean) rows.next();
     System.out.println("Account number is " + 
                                 row.get("account_id") +
                                  " and name is " + row.get("name"));
}
 
rs.close();
stmt.close();

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    Connection conn = ...;  // Acquire connection from pool
    Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
    ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT ...");
    RowSetDynaClass rsdc = new RowSetDynaClass(rs);
    rs.close();
    stmt.close();
    ...;                    // Return connection to pool
    List rows = rsdc.getRows();
    ...;                   // Process the rows as desired

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    MyBean bean = ...;
    DynaBean wrapper = new WrapDynaBean(bean);
    String firstName = wrapper.get("firstName");

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    HttpServletRequest request = ...;
    MyBean bean = ...;
    HashMap map = new HashMap();
    Enumeration names = request.getParameterNames();
    while (names.hasMoreElements()) {
      String name = (String) names.nextElement();
      map.put(name, request.getParameterValues(name));
    }
    BeanUtils.populate(bean, map);// it will use ConvertUtils for convertings

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   Converter myConverter =
    new org.apache.commons.beanutils.converter.IntegerConverter(); 
   ConvertUtils.register(myConverter, Integer.TYPE);    // Native type 
   ConvertUtils.register(myConverter, Integer.class);   // Wrapper class