Re: How can I get a reference collection from a GBean?

[Dain Sundstrom]

On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
From: Jeremy Boynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
Here's a use case.  Let's say that I have a management console that
is
managing a GBean.  There are times when it would be nice to see what
is
in its collection of references.
Wouldn't that be a static snapshot - you would't want the content
changing as the UI page was rendering.
That would work for me but, if a GBean was removed from the collection
would I really want to render it?  Is that scenario likely in a
management console?
That doesn't happen.  When you call iterator() on a reference 
collection, you get an iterator over a snapshot of the collection, so 
there is no chance it can change over during your work.  This was a 
necessary change given that the reference collection *is* modified by 
current threads.

I like this idea.  The next question is how should we implement this? A 
lot of ideas pop into my mind but I'd like to know what you think first 
:)

-dain