> > One alternative is what Haggar calls "two-stage construction." Pieces of > the construction process that can cause errors are moved into a separate > routine. The user constructs an instance, then calls the "finishing" > routine and checks the return code or exception from that secondary > routine. Yuk. > I quickly looked at the API for JDOM earlier today after seeing the first post regarding this question. This API, for the most part, uses this "two-stage construction". (Except for a couple of Classes where file I/O is used.)
Someone else should take a look and confirm this - I could be wrong. I don't consider the JDOM API to be yucky at all. ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
