+1 to leaving the constructor in with a comment.

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Tom Jordahl
Macromedia

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From: Russell Butek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:38 AM
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: xml-axis/java/test/wsdl/interop3/groupE/client
InteropTestDocLitServiceTestCase.java
InteropTestRpcEncServiceTestCase.java


This issue only arises when you write code to a given binding, and then
pass the WSDL for that binding AND YOUR CODE somewhere else.  If that
somewhere-else were going to write their own code based on their own
bindings, there'd be no problem (I think).

I suspect we see this problem when we cross JVM lines.  Somewhere, the
parameters are put into a Hashtable or HashMap or something of that nature.
I wonder whether IBM's JVM and Sun's use different algorithms for their
Hashtable implementations.  Doing things in the same JVM always produces
the same order, so the constructor is usable and useful if you stay in one
JVM.  I guess you're asking whether we should depend on that?

OK, what do folks think?  The constructor that takes all the elements is
useful, but could go astray.  Do we leave it there for its usefulness or do
we remove it to avoid problems like Glyn's?

My vote?  +1 to leave the constructor as is.  (I COULD add a warning
comment to that constructor when the WSDL has an <all> collection.)

Russell Butek
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Glyn Normington/UK/IBM@IBMGB on 02/22/2002 07:06:43 AM

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Russell,

Thanks for fixing those tests. What's the use of WSDL2Java generating those
constructors if their signatures can't be relied upon not to change?

Glyn


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