Re: Re: design issue

On 2002-06-26 at 15:31 Boris Garbuzov wrote:

>I found the third solution. Since my "single call
>code" uses no members of my test case, I placed former
>to static area of the latter as shown below. Had the
>code required members, it would have been possible to
>combine all test methods or even just overwrite run()
>method. 
>
>---------------------------------
>
>public class AppTest
>       extends TestCase
>{
>
>       /*
>       This is sure to be called once per process on class
>loading. 
>       */
>       static
>       {
>               webclient.ClientMain.main(null);
>       }
>
>==========================================

This is a design smell: static initializers make diagnosing problems
difficult, because they general require JVM shutdown and restart to
reproduce. Avoid them at all costs; use them only when absolutely no
other way could possibly work.

J. B. Rainsberger,
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