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>I have a lot of informational beans that hold static reference data (think
>ISO codes, State abbreviations, etc...) With these types of beans, I have
>the choice of instantiating a singleton object reference to the bean and
>accessing the methods through the object, or making all the methods "public
>static" so I can access them via BeanName.method(). For the former, the bean
>does all of it's initialization and database access in it's constructor and
>my JSP's have something like the following at the top:
Isn't this a prime candidate for application-level beans? These are
instantiated
when the servlet is started and reused, no?
-- Michael
