Yes, you are right, zou should not make an instance of it. That is not what was the intent of this bug. But you cannot make a derivative class of it providing some other helpful methods. So in my opinion it should be a protected constructor, not private.
On 19 October 2012 19:06, Adrian Crum (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5055?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel > ] > > Adrian Crum closed OFBIZ-5055. > ------------------------------ > > Resolution: Not A Problem > >> Private constructor in UtilMisc and some other classes >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Key: OFBIZ-5055 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5055 >> Project: OFBiz >> Issue Type: Bug >> Components: framework >> Affects Versions: Release 10.04, SVN trunk >> Reporter: Martin Kaiser >> >> I have noticed that in some Util (e.g. UtilMisc, UtilObject, StringUtil) >> classes in >> framework/base/src/org/ofbiz/base/util/ >> private default constructors are used. By using a private default >> constructor it is impossible to make any extensions to this classes. I don't >> see any cause why this is necessary. > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
