On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Kevin Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of the newer code in FileUtils is non-static, but most of the > older code is static, is this a historical oddity, or is there a > reason for it?
I don't think it is an older/newer thing. Initially we thought we'd provide subclasses for different OSes like OpenVMSFileUtils or NetwareFileUtils and would use newFileUtils as a factory method. We never did so, though. Some of the functionality would be the same among all OSes (like closing streams or reading files completely) and could be static, others like normalizing file names would be OS dependent and had to be non-static. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
