On 15 November 2007 at 10:22, "Nathan Beyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a class in a org.apache.harmony package. By general > convention, these classes are for implementation use within Harmony > only. At some point, these packages will be unavailable at runtime > (via OSGi or the like restrictions). > > There may be exceptions to this rule, such as where Harmony will > provide plug-in points, etc. However, I don't believe this is falls > into that category. There are a number of reasons, but most of them > fall under the fact that creating instances like this would circumvent > many of basic tenants and assumptions of the class library and > runtime.
+1 I don't think it would be wise to start having exceptions to this. The fact is there is a standard way to do this (JNI AllocObject) so user code should use this rather than doing something that is harmony-specific. Regards, Mark. > On Nov 15, 2007 4:16 AM, Andrew Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I find some methods of ObjectAccessor are useful for some existing > > applications and potential users, e.g, Object allocateObject(Class). Could > > we make getInstance() public so that users can benefit from these utility > > methods? Thanks! > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Andrew Zhang > > > > http://zhanghuangzhu.blogspot.com/ > > >
