Ok, then let me reply here, too (though there was a "factory" thread earlier;-)
Dependency Injection and CDI certainly benefit from non-static methods quite a bit. Werner On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Oliver B. Fischer <o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net> wrote: > I don't like the abuse of static methods. In one of the earlier discussion > I proposed > > new Configuration() > > Static methods are great for small helper methods. But they become > problematic if you would like to test code and to substitute their > funtionality with mocks. > > Best, > > Oliver > > Am 04.12.14 15:45, schrieb Werner Keil: > > Hi, >> >> Probably more important than config subsystems in JSR 107 or Log4J 2 >> (though it altogether got a really good rewrite making any effort for a >> "Logging JSR" by some people almost pointless;-) seems a massive redesign >> and recent activity of Apache Commons Logging 2: >> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/index.html >> >> Anybody had a look at that? >> >> Apache certainly has a very multicultural ecosystem, look at Struts vs. >> OpenFaces vs. Wicket vs. Tapestry and who knows how many (Web MVC) >> projects >> all exist, so why not have at least 2 or 3 for configuration. >> >> Something noteworthy is, that Commons Configuration 2 refrains from any >> static factory. >> Even a class sounding like it was static such as Configurations (in a new >> "fluent" package) works like this: >> Configurations configurations = new Configurations(); >> PropertiesConfiguration config = configurations.properties(new File( >> "config.properties")); >> >> Werner >> >> > -- > N Oliver B. Fischer > A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany > P +49 30 44793251 > M +49 178 7903538 > E o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net > S oliver.b.fischer > J oliver.b.fisc...@jabber.org > X http://xing.to/obf > >
