I'd like to propose creation of a public method in UrlBindingFactory that would allow creation of URLBinding prototypes. The method would be similar to parseUrlBinding(Class<? extends ActionBean>), but would take a String parameter instead.

Example:

UrlBinding prototype = UrlBindingFactory.parseUrlBinding(String);

Callers could use this prototype could then be used for any purpose, for example added to the URLBindingFactory in a custom ActionResolver. The use case for this particular request, FYI, is a file-based ActionResolver implementation that would read URLBindings from a file. This would permit URLBindings to be configurable rather than welded to classes as annotations.