I wanted to avoid having multiple copies of the Utils class lying around in
memory, so I switched to using a singleton Utils class, that I can
instantiate and add to the Velocity context.
Thanks guys!
John
On 12/21/06, Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi,
IIRC, you can add a public C'tor to construct a dummy object and then
use that in the context. I remember that something like this is the
reason why some of the Utility classes in Jakarta commons have a
public, no-arguments constructor even though the classes contain only
static methods.
A while ago, we talked about "invocation of static methods" but I'm
not sure if that discussion ever went anyplace.
Best regards
Henning
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>Hi all,
>I'm getting familiarized with Velocity, and I'm wondering about how I
should
>handle the following case:
>I have a utility class called "Utils". Now typically if I wanted to use
the
>member functions in this class in my other Java classes I would declare
them
>static and reference them as so "Utils.checkInput(int)".
>Now with Velocity and the idea that if I want these utilities available
to
>the VTL, I understand I need to put the object in the VelocityContext.
From
>what I have seen (for example with the VelocityFormatter tool), a new
object
>is created and put in the context
>velocityContext.put("formatter", new VelocityFormatter());
>So my question is: what do I do with my Utils class? Should I create a
new
>instance as well? Does that mean I should change my static methods to
>non-static methods? I guess my inexperience is showing here :)
>Thanks!
>John
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