RE: BCEL multicasting delegate implementation

> From: Chris Nokleberg [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> I've checked in a MulticastDelegate class to CGLIB CVS
> (cglib.sf.net). MethodClosure has been renamed MethodDelegate, and now
> supports delegating to static methods. Both use BCEL to 
> generate dynamic
> classes on the fly when needed.
> 
> MulticastDelegate is patterned more closely after the C# version than
> the one currently in Avalon:
> 
> - The objects are immutable. "add" and "remove" return a new object
>   rather than mutating the existing one. This helps with 
> thread safety,
>   among other things.
> 
> - You can add a delegate to a MulticastDelegate multiple times. The
>   delegate will be called once for each time it appears in the
>   multicaster's invocation list. This seemed more flexible to me, and
>   client code can enforce the set-like semantics when necessary.
> 
> As suggested, I've been copying over some of the 
> documentation from the
> Avalon classes. If anyone has a problem with this, let me 
> know. I wasn't
> sure whether to leave the @author tags or not, so for now 
> they are still
> there.

When donating code/interfaces, keeping the @author tags is a good thing.
If the Delegate stuff works well, then use the javadocs as we have them
(modifying to suite the difference in multi-delegate).