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Re: trigger static init

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On 4/9/2012 6:09 AM, Roedy Green wrote:

> I decided to handle it by putting in dummy public static void fireup()
> methods that as a side effect load the class and run static init. If I
> fail to call them, class loading is just procrastinated until first
> use.


This sort of idea sounds to me like the worst sort of hackish design 
possible.  Don't use statics for this use case.  Use Factories, or 
Strategies, or even just a Properties object if you only need to load a 
few constants at runtime.

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trigger static init Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-08 23:28 -0700
  Re: trigger static init Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-04-09 10:32 +0300
    Re: trigger static init Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-09 06:09 -0700
      Re: trigger static init markspace <-@.> - 2012-04-09 09:19 -0700
      Re: trigger static init Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-09 10:33 -0700
    Re: trigger static init Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-09 10:36 -0700
      Re: trigger static init Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-04-11 12:52 +0000
        Re: trigger static init Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-04-11 07:04 -0700
          Re: trigger static init Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-04-11 15:30 +0000
            Re: trigger static init Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-04-11 09:32 -0700
              Re: trigger static init Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-04-22 16:09 +0000
          Re: trigger static init Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-12 07:38 +0100
            Re: trigger static init Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-04-12 00:36 -0700
        Re: trigger static init Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-04-11 09:39 -0500
          Re: trigger static init Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-04-11 14:56 +0000
          Re: trigger static init Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-11 08:08 -0700
  Re: trigger static init glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-04-09 09:18 +0000
    Re: trigger static init Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-09 04:57 -0700
    Re: trigger static init Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-09 10:31 -0700
  Re: trigger static init Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-10 12:22 -0700

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