BaseProperty

Hello! While implementing something I came around the BaseProperty and while reading the code I found several strange things. I agree with the comment above BaseProperty that this class should be abstract, mainly because getValue() always returns null. Then PropertyClass can be made abstract as well. But then I'm stuck a bit with the stuff in XWikiHibernateStore, which creates also new instances of BaseProperty and PropertyClass. It looks to me like the code there is simply cloning those objects - but why is it not using clone() then? Well, it is doing some strange stuff there anyway. While looking at all this stuff, I also found several other things which could be cleaned up to avoid bugs, to increase performance and to make things easier understandable. But before I get really started: is this kind of work wanted? I am aware that with a code base of this size it is easy to break things... -- Michael Reinsch <mr(a)uue.org> http://mr.uue.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------