[jboss-dev-forums] [Design the new POJO MicroContainer] - Re: Anonymous beans

&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : | Why are you "cloning" fields that are direct referenes? What does it achieve? | You mean immutables? Does Object::clone do that already for me? &quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : | This looks overally complicated and an obvious misuse of generics again. | Why have generics then do all the casting and suppress warnings? | | The way to clone collections is something like: | | | | Set<String> aliases = this.getAliases(); | | if (aliases != null) | | clone.setAliases(new HashSet<String>(aliases)); | | All would be fine if Object::getClass returned the right Class generic. :-) I don't wanna do that extra 2 lines (null check and the new collection instantiation) for every cloning of the collection. And I guess I would also have to iterate over all the collection items that are not immutable and clone them before adding them to new collection instance. Another code that I don't want to duplicate. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4142111#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...