--- Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't understand why the instance of TagUtils has been made final: > > private static final TagUtils instance = new TagUtils();
It's simply following the Singleton pattern. I have no problems with changing this to allow clients to instantiate a TagUtils instance directly. David > > Isn't the logic behind having an 'instance' of TagUtils so that if > someone want to change an aspect of TagUtils behaviour they can extend > it and override a particular method? Otherwise why not just have a bunch > of static methods in TagUtils? > > Does anyone have opinions on changing this so that TagUtils > implementation could be customized? > > Niall > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
