Copy Primitive Bean Properties , PropertyUtils, BeanMap

The following class copies only Privimitive Data types or the Wrapper
classes , and ignores Custom Value Objects.

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanMap;
import org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class PrimitivePropertyCopier {

 private static final HashSet<Class<?>> WRAPPER_TYPES = getWrapperTypes();
 private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(RequestTranslatorUtil.class);

 public static void copyNonMemberClassProperties (Object target, Object source) {
  BeanMap beanMapPojo = new BeanMap( target );
  BeanMap beanMap = new BeanMap( source );
     Set keys = beanMapPojo.keySet( );
     Iterator keyIterator = keys.iterator( );
     while( keyIterator.hasNext( ) ) {
   try {
      String propertyName = (String) keyIterator.next( );
          Class classType = beanMap.getType(propertyName);
        if (classType != null && (isWrapperType(classType)||
          classType.isPrimitive())) {
          if ( PropertyUtils.isWriteable(target, propertyName)) {
      try {
       Object value = beanMap.get( propertyName );
       if (value != null) {
          PropertyUtils.setProperty(target, propertyName, value);
       }
      } catch (Exception e) {
       // No need to worry about this , we can ignore.
       log.error("Could be Ignored " + e.getMessage());
      }
          } 
        }
         } catch (Exception e) {
    log.error("Could be Ignored " + e.getMessage());
    }
     }
   
     }

 /**
  * This method checks the Type Of Variable if that is Copyable or not.
  *
  * @param clazz
  * @return
  */
  public static boolean isWrapperType(Class<?> clazz)
     {
         return WRAPPER_TYPES.contains(clazz);
     }

     private static HashSet<Class<?>> getWrapperTypes()
     {
         HashSet<Class<?>> ret = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
         ret.add(String.class);
         ret.add(Boolean.class);
         ret.add(Character.class);
         ret.add(Byte.class);
         ret.add(Short.class);
         ret.add(Integer.class);
         ret.add(Long.class);
         ret.add(Float.class);
         ret.add(Double.class);
         ret.add(Void.class);
         ret.add(Calendar.class);
         return ret;
     }
}

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