You can use a factory, a singleton, or a dependency injection container such as Spring or Guice.
Cheers, Clinton On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Anoop kumar V <[email protected]>wrote: > I was reading the example that ships with Ibatis and the initializer block > has this comment before configuring the SQL Map. I was just curious what is > the best practice of configuring one if not in the class initializer / a > constructor? I was hoping to call the class as part of the servlet init. > > /** > * It's not a good idea to put code that can fail in a class initializer, > * but for sake of argument, here's how you configure an SQL Map. > */ > static { > try { > Reader reader = > Resources.getResourceAsReader("com/mydomain/data/SqlMapConfig.xml"); > sqlMapper = SqlMapClientBuilder.buildSqlMapClient(reader); > reader.close(); > } catch (IOException e) { > // Fail fast. > throw new RuntimeException("Something bad happened while building the > SqlMapClient instance." + e, e); > } > > > Thanks, > Anoop >
