Sorry to jump the gun and reply before seeing this. I swear I *did* check for replies to the message before sending, but Outlook apparently didn't recognize this message as a reply. (#$%@ Outlook....)
-- Tom Jordahl Macromedia Server Development -----Original Message----- From: R J Scheuerle Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Q. about equals() in WSDL generated datatypes Yes __equalsCal was meant to support equals for objects that had direct or indirectly references back to the object. Rich Scheuerle IBM WebSphere & Axis Web Services Development 512-838-5115 (IBM TL 678-5115) "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "axis-dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> om> cc: Subject: Q. about equals() in WSDL generated datatypes 12/18/2002 02:38 PM Please respond to axis-dev So I'm staring at the equals() method that's been generated for me from a datatype private java.lang.Object __equalsCalc = null; public synchronized boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj) { if (!(obj instanceof JobInfo)) return false; JobInfo other = (JobInfo) obj; if (obj == null) return false; if (this == obj) return true; if (__equalsCalc != null) { return (__equalsCalc == obj); } __equalsCalc = obj; ...tests __equalsCalc = null; return _equals; My q. is: what is all this __equalsCalc stuff? It implies that if there is a reentrant equality test then the test would return true while the test is ongoing, but since the method is synchronized, you'd be hard pressed to call equals() twice. Is that what the __equalsCalc is there for? To catch recursion? -steve
