Hmm, for me the property order is not how I put the accessors into my 

source code. This seems to differ between JVMs. The Java documentation 

states:

  "The elements in the returned array are not sorted and are not in any 

particular order."

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#getMethods%28%29



In my opinion it is better to set a certain order as default. For those 

people having a JVM which orders methods like they are in source code it 

might be a bad surprise when they run their application on a different 

machine and notice the order is different.



Usually, you do not handle the Properties object manually but just use 

Inspector.getInspector. A very convenient way to handle properties are 

probably annotations. In this way you could also attach a comparator to 

specify the order for the generated properties and set options like 

domain directly at the accessors.



Best regards,

Christian



On 17.03.2016 16:18, Sean Luke wrote:

> Yeah, that's a documentation error.  But before I change it, any

> opinions?

>

> SimpleProperties is kind of in flux.  I added the ability to sort the

> properties arbitrarily (not documented), and the sort based on an

> array of strings representing property names (the poorly named

> makeFilterComparator(...) -- I will change that method name).  And

> the ability to sort alphabetically.  And of course no sorting.

>

> Originally I was going to make alphabetical sorting the default.  But

> I've since found that alphabetical ordering can be a real pain.

> People put methods in their source code in a specific order *on

> purpose*, and alphabetical ordering totally messes with that.  So I

> removed the alphabetical ordering default but kept it as an option.

> What's your opinion on this?

>

> Sean

>

> On Mar 17, 2016, at 5:21 AM, Christian Meyer

> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>

>> Hi,

>>

>> I just noticed that SimpleProperties gets initialized without a

>> sortComparator (null), although documentation states that it sorts

>> alphabetically by default.

>>

>> Best regards, Christian