I'd like to chime in and say that I'm not crazy about the approach 
either.  Static methods on singletons that behave as factories is one 
thing but in an implementation class I feel that the contstructor (or a 
seperate initializer method in complex cases like this one) are a better 
choice. 

We get alot of cool stuff from BioJava so its not a major issue but I 
did want to weigh in with my opinion.

Mike

Thomas Down wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:43:58AM +0100, Keith James wrote:
>
>>Err, there was... EMBL & Genbank parsing are temporarily broken and
>>Biojava won't build for me. I'm fixing it at the moment. It shouldn't
>>take long. 
>>
>>Is this a problem with Ant? I had to do an 'ant clean' before the
>>problem became apparent.
>>
>
>Oookay, I thought I did an `ant clean' last night.  But
>evidently not.   It was late.
>
>Are you alright fixing this?
>
>Anyone know of any ways to do dependancy-based builds in
>java which don't rely on the classic compiler (which never
>worked reliably for me anyway...)?
>
>Sorry,
>
>   Thomas.
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