Re: [Hibernate-devel] volunteers?

[Doug C. <de...@fl...>]

Earler I said:

> An alternative compromise between the two approaches is to add an
> instance variable to SortedSet, backingSet, which would be null for
> the real set, and for subsets it would reference the SortedSet
> superset. Then write() and read() could check backingSet: if it's null
> they would do the usual thing, if not they would delegate. This would
> be compatable with PeristentCollection.IteratorProxy I think.

I am liking this compromise more and more. I implemented SortedMap
this way so you'd have a concrete example to evaluate; see cvs. It
depends on Map.map being non-private, and PeristentCollection read()
and write() being non-final.

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