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Matt Benson commented on COLLECTIONS-451:
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In the past this was done, AIUI, so that we would play nicely with Velocity,
which at the time required an object instance to invoke even a static method.
I'm pretty sure this is no longer the case for Velocity, and during a major
release would certainly be the most opportune time to discontinue this
practice. +1 from me.
> Hide constructors of utility classes
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> Key: COLLECTIONS-451
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-451
> Project: Commons Collections
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Thomas Neidhart
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> All the utility classes like MapUtils have public constructors, although they
> only have static method.
> Normal practice is to hide the default constructor to prevent object creation.
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