[jdom-interest] Re: Fast or Safe?

[Gerardo Horvilleur]

"Trebor A. Rude" wrote:
 >         Hmm, if we do that, we could create a sigleton factory class to return
> you the proper implementation of the interface based on some settings it's
> got stored. At the very least, the programmer would be forced to manually
> create objects of the correct implementation. Of course, either way would
> probably break every existing JDOM program out there, as the "Element foo
> = new Element("foo");" idiom would break. Even though we could, with the
> claim "the API is pre-1.0", I'm not sure many people would be very happy
> if we did that. Design wise, it sounds fine though.

It would be something like: Element foo = factory.newElement("foo")
which seems reasonable enough to me. It is not too different from
what we have right now and it makes it possible to have multiple
implementations.

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Gerardo Horvilleur
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