[Repast-developer] protection levels in ScheduleBase, BasicAction

[Andy C. <ac...@ll...>]

Dear Repast developers,

For my own project, I am trying to extend Repast's ScheduleBase and 
Schedule via inheritance, but have run into a problem with protections... 
Namely, in ScheduleBase, the member function fillGroup is private.

I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with protection levels in 
Java; I tend to use public or protected when I think of it, and package 
level when I forget. ;-) So, I suppose question number one is whether or 
not there are compelling reasons for this particular choice. Question 2 is 
what would you recommend I do about it? For the time being, I'm going to 
munge my copy of Repast to make this protected, but I don't want to do that 
longterm. Is this the forum by which I should ask if that protection can be 
revisited for the next release?

If there are more elegant solutions, by all means let me know what they 
are... I'm trying to override the preexecute function to incorporate some 
(very basic) parallel synchronization. If I'm correct, I don't have to 
override fillgroup, just call it as is currently being done...

Best,
Andy

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Andrew J. Cleary, Software Engineer/Computational Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Labs, 925-424-5890.
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