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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: Using main from abstract class in concrete class
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:56:02 -0000 (UTC)
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Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:
> I do something like that now:
>     public class SQLite3 extends SQL {
>         // ################ main
>         public static void main(final String[] args) throws SQLException {
>             SQL.mainWork(SQLite3.class.getCanonicalName(), args);
>         }

Why not change "mainWork" such, that it accepts a Class ref directly,
rather than the canonical name?

Maybe even simpler would be to have it accept a SQL ref and just pass
it: new SQLite3()

There is certainly more than one way to Rome.

> I renamed main in the abstract class SQL to mainWork and removed
> public.

You might want to add "protected", so that derived classes even in
other packages can still call it.  "protected" is more permissive than 
default access.