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From: Mark Hindess <mark.hindess@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [classlib][misc] Could we make ObjectAccessor.getInstance()
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:38:50 +0000


On 15 November 2007 at 10:22, "Nathan Beyer" <nbeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a class in a org.apache.harmony package. By general
> convention, these classes are for implementation use within Harmony
> only. At some point, these packages will be unavailable at runtime
> (via OSGi or the like restrictions).
>
> There may be exceptions to this rule, such as where Harmony will
> provide plug-in points, etc. However, I don't believe this is falls
> into that category. There are a number of reasons, but most of them
> fall under the fact that creating instances like this would circumvent
> many of basic tenants and assumptions of the class library and
> runtime.

+1

I don't think it would be wise to start having exceptions to this.
The fact is there is a standard way to do this (JNI AllocObject)
so user code should use this rather than doing something that is
harmony-specific.

Regards,
 Mark.

> On Nov 15, 2007 4:16 AM, Andrew Zhang <zhanghuangzhu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I find some methods of ObjectAccessor are useful for some existing
> > applications and potential users, e.g, Object allocateObject(Class). Could
> > we make getInstance() public so that users can benefit from these utility
> > methods? Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Andrew Zhang
> >
> > http://zhanghuangzhu.blogspot.com/
> >
>