Dynamically Populating Java Beans with some data

Very often one needs to populate a bean with some dummy data. It's EXTREMELY boring to do it manually.

This is only the first cut of a utility to do it in an automated way:

TAGD result = new TAGD();

Map properties = BeanUtils.describe(result);

for (Object property : properties.keySet()) {

  BeanUtils.setProperty(result, property.toString(), property.toString());

}

return result;

This works only if you have only strings in the bean.

BeanUtils is from Apache Commons.