diff --git a/README.mdown b/README.mdown index c738fa8..ef3c2bf 100644 --- a/README.mdown +++ b/README.mdown @@ -3,6 +3,18 @@ SpelHelper provides additional functionalities to work with SpelHelper is available under GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL). +**Maven Usage** + +To use SpelHelper with Maven, add the following snippet in the dependencies section of your project's POM file: + + + net.abhinavsarkar + SpelHelper + 1.1 + + +**Functionalities** + The addition functionalities provided are: 1. Implicit methods @@ -10,7 +22,7 @@ The addition functionalities provided are: 3. Simplified extension functions 4. Simplified constructors -**Implicit Methods** +_**Implicit methods**_ Implicit methods allow one to registers methods with SpelHelper and attach them to particular classes. After that, when that method is called on an @@ -27,7 +39,7 @@ So when an expression like `"#list(1,4,2).sorted()"` is evaluated, the first parameter and its return value is used in further evaluation of the expression. -**Implicit Properties** +_**Implicit properties**_ Implicit properties allow one to treat no argument methods of an object as properties of the object. SpelHelper intercepts the property resolution @@ -42,7 +54,7 @@ the same value as the last example. Implicit property resolution considers both the actual methods of the object and the implicit methods registered on the object's class. -**Simplified extension functions** +_**Simplified extension functions**_ SpEL [allows][2] to register extension function on the context by providing a name and a java.lang.reflect.Method object. SpelHelper simplifies this by taking a class @@ -54,7 +66,7 @@ registered by SpelHelper. Hence the method [ExtensionFunctions#list(Object...)][ can be called from inside a SpEL expression using the function call syntax: `"#list(1,2,3)`". -**Simplified constructors** +_**Simplified constructors**_ SpEL [allows][3] calling constructors from inside a SpEL expression using the `new` operator. But they have to be called with their full name like: