Hi,

perhaps I should have prefixed my opinion with IMHO (o:  

however, I think that there are things provided for you in the language,
and you're better off to use them rather than re-invent the wheel.  I'm
assuming that you have special treatment of '"' and ',' in your
StringArray class?  I know this can all be handled, but I'm happy to
accept the handling of it thats provided for me (o:

cheers
dim

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Tom Drake wrote:

> Dmitri:
> 
> I've just completed a project that had a rather large Object model in
> which there were numerous String collections. My solution was to
> create a StringArray object to manage them. This turned out to be the
> simplest way to implement a List based solution, since all the
> management code moved into the StringArray class. Adding a StringArray
> to class became a three - liner. ex)
> 
>     private StringArray _someList;
>     public void setSomeList(StringArray values) { _someList = values; }
>     public StringArray getSomeList() { return _someList; }
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dmitri Colebatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 6:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [castor-dev] vector, String[] or String...
> 
> 
> | I would _definately_ go for option (1).  a lot cleaner.
> |
> | my 2c
> |
> | cheesr
> | dim
> |
> | On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Keith Chew wrote:
> |
> | > Hi
> | >
> | > Simple question. If I have a an object and one of it's attributes is a
> list
> | > of string, should I:
> | > (1) create a Vector of string objects
> | > (2) create a String and comma delimit the items
> | >
> | > In terms of programming, (1) would be the easiest, but in terms of JDO,
> I
> | > suppose (2) is the easiet (just an extra column in the table). In (1),
> we
> | > need to create a new table and class.
> | >
> | > Which approach would you take? Or any other ideas would be welcome.
> | >
> | > Thanks
> | > Keith C
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