Chris Scott said the following on 3/24/2006 7:13 PM: > Instead of changing the type to 'any' for your argument for > setNewsDAO, why don't you make a mock abstract class for your newDAO, > and then have both your newsDAO and newsDAO_XML extend the same class. > Then you can have that base abstract class be the type for your > argument. A good thing to do with interfaces by the way, which of > course ARE coming! > > -Chris I ditto this as well. I switched to always extending my DAOs and Gateways with a base class specific to the entity the DAO/Gateway represents last fall. This was due to the fact that we use MySQL around here, there is a possibility of making one of our apps support other DBs.
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