anonymous wrote : | 1. It would be nice if it returned a boolean not a Node | is this specifically useful though? anonymous wrote : | 2. Actually, I'm not sure "size" is a good idea. It still has to hit the interceptor chain to return the correct value, and for this I assume requires some non-trivial thought. | Well, retrieving the data or keys would also involve the interceptor stack and this is just a convenience atop that. But more than that, I'm doing it to get it in to the API. We can optimise and improve on this later, but at worst it will have the same overhead as doing getKeys().size() View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4004822#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...