Bean.java

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package org.apache.bsf.util;

/**
 * A <em>Bean</em> is the class used to represent a bean: it holds a 
 * type and a value. This is needed because otherwise we can't represent 
 * the types of null-valued beans (or primitives) correctly. This was
 * originally in the BML player.
 *
 * @author   Sanjiva Weerawarana
 */
public class Bean {
  // type of this bean
  public Class type;

  // its current value (mebbe null)
  public Object value;

  public Bean (Class type, Object value) {
	this.type = type;
	this.value = value;
  }
}