public static FamilyClusterInfo getFamilyClusterInfo(String familyName) 
{
      return (FamilyClusterInfo)families.get (familyName);
}

 public static synchronized FamilyClusterInfo initTarget(String familyName,
    ArrayList targets) 
{
   
   // Static --------------------------------------------------------
      return initTarget (familyName, targets, 0L);
}

 public static synchronized FamilyClusterInfo initTarget(String familyName,
    ArrayList targets,
    long viewId) 
{
      // this method must be somehow synchronized to avoid multiple FamilyClusterInfoImpl 
      // for the same familyName in multi-threaded app accessing the same bean
      //
      FamilyClusterInfoImpl family = (FamilyClusterInfoImpl)families.get (familyName);
      if (family == null)
      {
         family = new FamilyClusterInfoImpl (familyName, targets, viewId);
         families.put (familyName, family);         
      }
      else
      {
         // no need to initialize: it is already done: we keep the same object
         //
         family.updateClusterInfo (targets, viewId); // should not happen: possible if redeploy after undeploy fails
      }
      return family;
}