[ mx4j-Bugs-1031848 ] DescriptorSupport doesn't provide a useful clone imp.

Bugs item #1031848, was opened at 2004-09-21 22:24
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jon Seymour (jonseymour)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: DescriptorSupport doesn't provide a useful clone imp.

Initial Comment:
The JMX specification defines the Descriptor.clone()
method which "returns a new Descriptor instance which
is a duplicate of the [receiving descriptor]."

However, MX4J's implementation of clone doesn't produce
a duplicate which is usefully different from the
original object. In particular, mutations of the new
field values of the cloned descriptor will change the
field values of the source descriptor.

A duplicate defined in this way isn't very useful - one
may as well copy the original object reference instead
of cloning it and so this can't be the intended meaning
of the JMX specification.

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