[jdom-interest] Re: Fast or Safe?

[Trebor A. Rude]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Gerardo Horvilleur wrote:
>"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.

	It's quite reasonable, my only concern is that it probably breaks all 
existing code, which we may not want to do. Fortunately we're in the 
pre-1.0 stage, and it's easier to justify the large change. Brett? Jason? 
What do you think?

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