[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JGRP-987) Make many classes immutable

[Bela Ban (JIRA)]

Make many classes immutable
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                 Key: JGRP-987
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JGRP-987
             Project: JGroups
          Issue Type: Feature Request
            Reporter: Bela Ban
            Assignee: Bela Ban
             Fix For: 3.x


Currently, a lot of classes could be immutable if it wasn't for the readFrom() method to initialize itself from an input stream.

However, if we had a factory, which reads and constructs immutable instances of classes, then we could turn a lot of classes into immutable classes, for example all headers should be immutable.

The code for marshalling and unmarshalling could be generated, e.g. based on an XML description of the data layout of a class.

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