In most places in the server side code, internal variables are accessed directly via something like, node.parent... instead of making the variable private and using getters and setters, what is the purpose of this?
Another question is why the synchronization on for example the DataNode is done on the node itself and not on the variables access, it seems reasonable to me that 2 different threads would be allowed to modify for example the data and the children at the same time, or is there something that I'm missing here, watchers? Erik
