Keep reading, Tom... :)
(Joe-Bob says "catch up on *all* the mail before you reply")
--G
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Jordahl [mailto:tomj@macromedia.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:54 AM
> To: 'axis-dev@xml.apache.org'
> Cc: 'Rich Scheuerle (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: Q. about equals() in WSDL generated datatypes
>
>
>
> While I wrote the original (lame) implementation of equals(),
> Rich Scheuerle wrote the more complicated (and more correct)
> version that is emitted today.
>
> Rich?
>
> --
> Tom Jordahl
> Macromedia Server Development
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:steve_l@iseran.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:39 PM
> To: axis-dev
> Subject: Q. about equals() in WSDL generated datatypes
>
>
> So I'm staring at the equals() method that's been generated
> for me from a
> datatype
>
> private java.lang.Object __equalsCalc = null;
>
> public synchronized boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj) {
> if (!(obj instanceof JobInfo)) return false;
> JobInfo other = (JobInfo) obj;
> if (obj == null) return false;
> if (this == obj) return true;
> if (__equalsCalc != null) {
> return (__equalsCalc == obj);
> }
> __equalsCalc = obj;
> ...tests
> __equalsCalc = null;
> return _equals;
>
>
> My q. is: what is all this __equalsCalc stuff? It implies
> that if there is a
> reentrant equality test then the test would return true while
> the test is
> ongoing, but since the method is synchronized, you'd be hard
> pressed to call
> equals() twice.
>
> Is that what the __equalsCalc is there for? To catch recursion?
>
> -steve
>
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