Why is Document final?

2005-12-23 Thread Steven Pannell
Hi, Can someone please tell my why the Document class has no interface and is final? I want to create some documents that have some standard fields (eg: creation date), and I don't want to keep repeating my code. This way I ensure some standard conventions in all my documents. What's the reason

Re: Why is Document final?

2005-12-23 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:00 AM, Steven Pannell wrote: Can someone please tell my why the Document class has no interface and is final? Primarily because Lucene controls the construction of Document instances returned from Hits. I want to create some documents that have some standard fields

RE: Why is Document final?

2005-12-23 Thread Steven Pannell
PROTECTED] Sent: 23 December 2005 11:31 To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Why is Document final? On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:00 AM, Steven Pannell wrote: > Can someone please tell my why the Document class has no interface > and is > final? Primarily because Lucene controls the con

RE: Why is Document final?

2005-12-23 Thread Aruna Rawat
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 4:23 PM To: 'java-dev@lucene.apache.org' Subject: RE: Why is Document final? Hi, Yes, I can see why in this implementation it will not work. However, what about using the XMLEncoder instead of Serializable? Using this method we have both platform