On Wed, 01 Dec 2004, Jesse Glick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> Initially we thought we'd provide subclasses for different OSes >> like OpenVMSFileUtils or NetwareFileUtils and would use >> newFileUtils as a factory method.
> But it seems that various methods already do OS-dependent checks; > this should work equally well with static methods, right? Yes. You must have missed my > We never did so, though. The way the methods are implemented is not the way we envisioned when we made FileUtils a factory. Somehow the OS dependent code crept into the methods as ifs instead of getting rolled into subclasses. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]