LimitationsOnBusinessEntities

Coding limitations on Business Entities

Summary

Currently oVirt engine-core and web UI components of oVirt share the same business entities (i.e org.ovirt.engine.core.common.DiskImageBase). As long as there is no separation of business entities between engine-core and web UI, there are some coding limitations (as a result of GWT compilation) which should be addressed by developers defining a new entity.

List of limitations

• final members should not be used.

For example: Use int numberOfVms instead of final int numberOfVms

• Concrete collection classes should be used.

For example: Use ArrayList<DiskImage> getImages() instead of List<DiskImage> getImages()