Re: Request for comments: Bug 6306820

2007-05-21 Thread Richard Kennard
Alan, Thanks for your continued support. I find the 'static factory method' approach interesting, but I'm a little confused. You cite 'being able to return a subclass' as an advantage. However, you also recommend a private constructor and classes with private constructors can never be subclasse

Re: Patch for Enhancement Bug # 6313849 and 417591

2007-05-21 Thread Michael McMahon
Andreas Schaefer wrote: Michael McMahon wrote: Andreas Schaefer wrote: Michael McMahon wrote: Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote: Andreas Schaefer wrote: > Well, the reason I did make it abstract is the fact that I did want to avoid someo

Re: Request for comments: Bug 6306820

2007-05-21 Thread Alan Bateman
Richard Kennard wrote: Alan, Thanks for your prompt reply! I appreciate you keeping this moving. 1. I would like to postpone the issues of method chaining and URI/URL creation to another discussion, if that's okay. 2. So what we are debating between here is... public UrlQueryString {