I believe you did the submission just fine, with the Tests even.

I will look at it.

Thanks
Scott Sanders

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: DoubleOrderedMap
> 
> 
> First, if I did any of those submissions incorrectly ... I'm 
> new at this. 
> Tell me how I ought to have done it, and I will repent and 
> sin no more 
> (well, at least not *that* way).
> 
> Second, I suppose some explanation is in order. I wrote 
> DoubleOrderedMap to 
> fill a need we had on the POI project 
> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/poi). We needed to keep a 
> collection of 
> key-value pairings with fast ordered iterators both by key 
> and by value.
> 
> Nothing we found was up to the task, and we started out using 
> a pair of 
> TreeMap instances, one mapping key to value, the other value 
> to key. I was 
> not happy with the solution, as it was an accident looking 
> for a place to 
> happen (just forget, one time, to modify *both* maps ...), 
> plus it was very 
> wasteful to store the key-value data twice.
> 
> So ... I came up with DoubleOrderedMap, and we decided that 
> this might just 
> be general purpose enough in nature to come live in the 
> jakarta-commons 
> collections package.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Marc Johnson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles.
> - Kosh Naranek
> 
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