[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: SAX2 RFD: Inheritance vs. Modification vs. Amalgamation
David Megginson wrote: > > 1. Create a new interface, org.xml.sax.Parser2, that extends > org.xml.sax.Parser. > > PRO: - provides nice, two-way compatibility > - easy to write adapters for existing SAX 1.0 drivers. > CON: - subclassing always leads to crime (see the GOF book for > copious warnings). Actually, strike that "con" -- this isn't subclassing, it's instead "subtyping", since Parser is an interface not a class. Inheriting interfaces can't cause the crimes you'd get by relying on parent class implementation artifacts! My preference is clearly for #1 ... it's the standard way to evolve existing interfaces in Java and most other interface oriented frameworks. > 2. Add the methods to org.xml.sax.Parser, and require applications to > catch NoSuchMethodException when using the new methods, in case > they're concerned about what version they're dealing with. As Miles recently noted, this depends on everyone upgrading to conform to the Java 2 standard. (I recall the internal discussions at the time. This was a conscious change in behavior; JDK 1.1 and 1.0 are now viewed as being in error.) While desirable, it's not a thing I see happening very quickly ... particularly in embedded systems which conform to the JDK 1.1 behavior!! The motivation for changing this depended on ease of evolution in the specific case where interface definers have strong control over all implementations of the interface ... which clearly is not the case with SAX!! (Note that this change removes one of the incentives to use abstract base classes inappropriately!) > 3. Create a separate interface org.xml.sax.ParserProps (or something > like that), and require SAX2 drivers to implement both interfaces. The primary difference between this and #1 is that this defines another interface, and I don't see a benefit to that. - Dave xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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