Re: Undo/redo implementation & JMI compliance

Svata Dedic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.mdr.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Holger Krug wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:44:17PM +0200, Svata Dedic wrote:
> 
> 
> Furthermore because I want to have persistent undo/redo support I must
> uniquely identify each repository object in a serializable way. IMHO
> JMI allows to do this for instance objects only by a combination of
> fully qualified names and mofIds. Quite odd, when almost every JMI
> implementation should be able to provide a fast lookup by mofId. This
> slows down undo/redo further. Hence my proposal to add an interface
> Repository with an operation:
> 
> RefBaseObject Repository.getByMofId(String mofId) throws SomeException 
> 
I am afraid this would be very very difficult operation, given that it 
spans all package extents, some possible remote. It was rejected last 
time I asked for something similar.

-Svata

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