Richard O. Hammer wrote:
I might get what I want by extending both Timer and TimerTask, but I thought object oriented design offered simpler ways to achieve such simple augmentations in behavior.
It does, but the author of the Timer class would have to take that into consideration in order expose the functionality you wish to extend. In this case, the functionality is contained within the TimerThread class, which is not made public -- making it completely impossible for you to extend. This is not a failure of OO so much as it is a failure of the author to anticipate future needs. From a quick perusal of the source, there was no consideration given to the situation you encoutered in the design. Clearly the author intended you to catch any exceptions before propogating them to the TimerThread. Following with that design philosophy, you should put a try...catch(Throwable) around all your "run" methods. C -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Merrill | http://www.webperformanceinc.com Web Performance Inc. Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [email protected] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
