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I would like ot request search of associated objects supported by some form of indexing. I often need to search for a component or an associated instnace with a specific name, or other attributes. Currently it's not possible and clients have either to iterate through the associated objects, build key -> RefObjects caches (which may keep huge data in the memory), or I have to put the lookup cache into the Handler. I think it would be very good if there's a way how to index the linkset originating from a single endpoint. It even need not to be expressed in metamodel (except having a model operation for that) as it is mainly implementation - and performance - issue.
Sorry for spamming :-( I forgot to stress importance of the issue.
Done by Dan Prusa. See the documentation at http://mdr.netbeans.org/additional_indexes.html.