When you do that, do remember that you cannot override static methods in the same way that you can with instance methods.
Gary -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 14:07 To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [lang] DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html Because I want to create a subclass of StringUtils. Use case: I curently have a string utility class named UString. I plan to change that to extend StringUtils once 2.0 is released. (Because I'll get lots of extra methods for free) But I can only do that if StringUtils is not final. Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [lang] DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html > > Question just came up on [io]. > > Why do we not make our XxxUtil classes final again? :) Anyone remember or > should I trawl through the mail from last year? > > Hen > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Plus1 > > Stephen > > > > > from: Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:00:23 > > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > subject: Re: [lang] DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html > > > > > > > > > Just noticed that DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html doesn't mention whether our > > > XxxUtils class should be final or not. I'm pretty sure we ended up making > > > them not final. Anyone object to this before I add a line to the guide? > > > > > > Hen > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
