"alesj" wrote : | Is this OK? | Or too ugly hack? That's the way I told you to do it before. The whole point of protected and "friend" in c++ is to allow restricted access to implementation details, but you need to make sure the access makes sense. i.e. Is it possible that the implementation will change down the road making these methods unsupportable? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4073012#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...