Gang, The new EntityStoreTestSuite is testing whether ordering (iterator()) is preserved in the NamedAssociation, so that keys are returned in the same order they were added.
This is achieved with a LinkedHashMap internally and Map ES will (de)serialize that map in order. For Preferences ES and Cassandra ES, this is not so, each entry is stored "natively". Now, the question is; Is ORDERING in NamedAssociation a defined semantic behavior, or simply a side effect of current implementation? Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java
