On 10/19/06, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It looks like the JSF 1.2 EG used this pattern a lot, when they added new methods to existing classes ... see for example FacesContext.getELContext(). Leaving the new method abstract would have caused old applications loading this class to break, so they had to make the new methods concrete. Why they didn't just go ahead and implement the newly desired behavior is a question for them, though.
Craig
no, I mean,
why not just abstract isPost() method and letting the impls deal with that?
It looks like the JSF 1.2 EG used this pattern a lot, when they added new methods to existing classes ... see for example FacesContext.getELContext(). Leaving the new method abstract would have caused old applications loading this class to break, so they had to make the new methods concrete. Why they didn't just go ahead and implement the newly desired behavior is a question for them, though.
Craig
