Design Patterns discussion

[oleg shteynbuk <oshteynbuk AT nyc.rr.com>]

Rajesh,

not sure that I fully understand your question, composite is a tree and 
infinite loop could happens if your tree is cyclic but this is a problem 
of tree and not the pattern. Composite is actually one of the most often 
used patterns.

Oleg



rajesh AT cs.iitm.ernet.in
 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a doubt on Composite pattern. Does a composite pattern have more 
> than one composite class ? If not, why? If so, what are the applications 
> that it contains ? 
>
> I feel that if we have two composite classes we will get into infinite 
> loop because one composite class will make a call to all the subclasses(of 
> component)operation and as it makes a call to other composite class 
> (one of the subclass of component) operation method it in turn make calls 
> to all other subclasses operation and so on. Is it correct ?
> Looking forward for ur reply
>
> rajesh
>
>