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From: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
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Subject: Re: calling own methods from constructor
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:24:29 -0400
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Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> Is there any *good* use of having the constructor call a method that
>> actually *can* be overridden in a subclass? I mean, are there
>> (non-anti)patterns of explicitly allowing subclasses to hook into
>> base-class's construction?

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import static org.apache.log4j.getLogger;

public class Foo
{
    private final Logger logger = getLogger( getClass() );
  // ...
}


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Lew
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