One thing to do Ben is to check the project developers guide; and
perhaps copy your rant in as a project guideline.

Jody

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies
<ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> wrote:
> On 15/06/10 13:25, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>> Can we arrange for maven to yell at us when HashMap is used?
>
> I do not think we should do this ,as there are legitimate occasions where
> HashMap may be used for performance, particularly when we have many
> insertions, one iteration, and iteration order is not exposed (e.g. the
> contents are re-sorted in another container). I think being too dogmatic,
> and in particular, allowing a simple rule-of-thumb enforced in maven to
> override the judgement of an experienced developer might not be the best
> approach.
>
>> Ben I have been known to use a couple of the other Map implementations;
>> such as ConcurrentHashMap (and we also have our own WeakHashMap) - we may
>> need to check if these implementations suffer the same weaknesses as
>> HashMap.
>
> That is a good point.
>
> --
> Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au>
> Software Engineering Team Leader
> CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
> Australian Resources Research Centre
>

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