On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:03:29PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:22:39PM +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > > On 22.02.2006 21:55:36 Simon Pepping wrote: > > > Would it not be nicer to have a constructor that takes the output > > > stream as an argument? > > > > If this is preferred, no objections. However, not all output formats take > > an OutputStream which means an increase of factory methods. > > For those formats that do require an OutputStream the created object > is inconsistent, and one is only notified at runtime. The presence of > another factory method at least suggests that it under some > circumstances it may be necessary to create the object with an > OutputStream.
Added the methods. As you see from my example, I prefer early testing of the consistency of the Fop object. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
