I've been playing around with onActivate methods recently, that is with multiple parameters and multiple methods. I don't understand its behaviour - it does not seem to match up with the lore on the mailing lists (apologies for the lack of references). I was wondering if anyone has recent experience or a write-up of this - if not I'll post a Wiki page on it.
Specifically, the "lore" says that onActivate methods should be picked first by alphabetical method name and then by descending number of parameters. On 5.0.11, I find that the first method picked is the safety catch-all onActivate(Object[] context) irrespective of the name of other methods and how many parameters they have. Further I get strange results if I have a method of the form: onActivate(String firstParameter,Object[] otherParameters) I expected otherParameters to contain just the other parameters, but in fact it also contains firstParameter! (not that this isn't useful too). Any thoughts? Szemere
