"anil.saldhana(a)jboss.com" wrote : | An issue that exists for addDependencies/addAttributes api addition to ServiceMetaData is that the internal data structures are Lists (rather than Sets) and hence there can be duplication of dependencies. [/quote | | That is to preserve the legacy semantic that it always did the | "depends optional-attribute" and attribute processing directly from the | xml file in the order listed. | There could be some stupid mbean that expects the attributes in a particular order | rather than using create to handle the multiple attribute processing, e.g. | | | | public void setAttribute1(String one) { this.one = one } | | public void setAttribute2(String two) | | { | | doSomething(one, two); | | } | | | | Anyway it's not difficult for a new addDepednency() method to check | whether the list already contains the value trying to be inserted. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131039#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...