RE: interface for constants

2006-07-18 Thread George.Dinwiddie
p listener (javax.servlet.ServletContextListener) to perform initialization. - George http://www.idiacomputing.com/ > -Original Message- > From: temp temp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:13 AM > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: interface for constants >

Re: interface for constants

2006-07-18 Thread Leon Rosenberg
it is a good practice to have a constants interface, but its a really bad practice to perform hidden data accesses for constant initialization. In your case a UtilityClass (static methods) with a controlled initialization would be much better. if ObjectDAO.get("APPLICATION") fails the results are

RE: interface for constants

2006-07-18 Thread Krishna, Hari
absolutely not -Original Message- From: temp temp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:43 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: interface for constants I have is a constants interface with static final fields . Each field value is a call to DAO. For example

interface for constants

2006-07-18 Thread temp temp
I have is a constants interface with static final fields . Each field value is a call to DAO. For example interface IObjectTypeIds{ public static final int APPLICATION =ObjectDAO.get("APPLICATION"); } Is this is a good practice ? - Do you Yaho