Re: Container reqs

[Robert*@ <Robert_member@newsguy.com>]

In article <u3d4jtnq6.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen says...
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>
>No conflict here, just different experience. Apparently, the library
>should have both task safe and non-task safe components, as the Booch
>library has (and my library does not; my experience matches
>Jean-Marc's, so far).
>
 
In java, you can create a synchronized version of any java standard 
collection . Same collection name, same interface, etc...

see

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/qow/archive/60/index.html

This is from the above

"The synchronization wrappers add automatic synchronization (thread-safety) 
to an arbitrary collection. There is one static factory method for 
each of the six core collection interfaces:

 public static Collection synchronizedCollection(
                                      Collection c); 
 public static Set synchronizedSet(Set s); 
 public static List synchronizedList(List list); 
 public static Map synchronizedMap(Map m); 
 public static SortedSet synchronizedSortedSet(
                                       SortedSet s); 
 public static SortedMap synchronizedSortedMap(
                                       SortedMap m); 


Each of these methods returns a synchronized (thread-safe) Collection 
backed by the specified collection."


If you like to see a list of java collection, see

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/collections/reference.html