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Re: Comparison by value vs. validatedObjects

From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:07:56 -0800

Aleksei Valikov wrote:
> My personal opinion is that JAXB validator should compare objects in the
> tree by identity, not by value.

I agree.

> The simplest way to correct this would be to add objects to the
> validatedObjects wrapped into an "identity-comparing" wrapper like the
> one below.

That would cause a lot of object allocation, wouldn't it? It's probably
not too hard to implement a custom HashSet that uses == instead of
equals, especially because we only do the add operation.

-- 
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com
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