[jdom-interest] Design Patterns

[Frank Sauer]

I think you're mistaken there. All that the visitor
pattern requires is that all objects being visited
implement some kind of Visitable interface accepting
a Visitor (interface) in some kind of a visit method.
This does not require a common base class and each class
being visited can have completely different implementations
of the visit method. Personally I think a Visitor pattern
could be the answer to the tree walking issues in relation to
this common Node discussion.

Frank Sauer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Trimmer, Todd [mailto:todd.trimmer at trizetto.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:05 PM
To: 'jdom-interest at jdom.org'
Subject: [jdom-interest] Design Patterns


More than one request to add functionality has been responded with "Use a
Decorator for this" or "Use a Visitor for that."

Both of these patterns assume a base class for a hierarchy of objects to be
acted upon. Does anyone realize how much harder these patterns are to
implement without an underlying interface? Wouldn't Node solve this problem?



Todd Trimmer
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