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Hi,
This is a request for allowing a user to specify a collection-factory for a collection-descriptor. The collection factory is used to create collection instances when the owner of the collection is read from the database.
In my usecase I need to pass runtime information to the constructor of the collection (i.e. the collection needs its owning object). This is for example for handling a notification infrastructure in which changes to the collection are broadcasted to listeners who need to know from which object the notification comes. The current collection-class implementation in ojb 'only' supports zero-argument constructors which do not handle my usecase.
I have made an implementation of the collection-factory in ojb which I will try to attach (as a patch) to this request or otherwise send to the ojb-dev mailing list. If I can be of help to get this implemented then please let me know.
gr. Martin Taal