Re: [Bamboo.Prevalence-users] Object hierarchy

[Rodrigo B. de O. <rod...@ho...>]

>
> I have an additional question though...You implement a method for
> getting an employee and you have marked it with the Query attribute. As
> I understand it this means that many threads can call it concurrently
> without locking, which is good.

Yes. Well, the GetEmployee method in the example should be marked
PassThrough
since the _objects Hashtable is already synchronized. My bad.

> Can you explain the difference between
> using this method and retrieving the EmployeeCollection from a
> Department and getting the Employee using the collection indexer like
> this:
>
> Employee e = myCompany.Departments[departmentid].Employees[employeeId];
>
> This will bypass the Prevalent synchronization, right?
>

Yes.

>  As long as the
> collection is thread safe, is this access method ok or do you see any
> problems with using it? Maybe it should not be allowed at all?
>

No problems at all. Actually that's the way I recommend people to
access their object models: directly. The reader/writer strategy employed
by Bamboo.Prevalence is just one of the tools you can use.

> Thanks for taking your time to answer my questions :)
>

No problem really, keep them coming! :-)

Rodrigo