Hi Jeff,
I agree that this feature is somewhat partially defined by the spec. So I
suggest to send your thoughts to the JSR feedback alias ;).
thanks,
-marina
jeff wrote On 03/14/07 16:09,:
> thanks marina,
>
> if that's the case, wouldn't it make sense to disallow field types of
> List? a List is ordered, by definition. it is sort of misleading to
> allow one to specify it as List and then state the retrieved order is
> undefined.
>
>
> */Marina Vatkina <Marina.Vatkina_at_Sun.COM>/* wrote:
>
> Unfortunately not - a) if you are not specifying the orderBy, the
> list can be
> returned by the database retrieved order; b) but even if you do, the
> spec allows
> to use cashed values, so if you didn't order the list before the
> commit, you
> might get back a copy of the committed view.
>
> -marina
>
> jeff wrote On 03/14/07 15:22,:
> > if i have a field ...
> >
> > List foos = new ArrayList();
> >
> > am i guaranteed that when i persist and then retrieve the object that
> > the ordering of list elements will be maintained? i am seeing that
> it is
> > not.
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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