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A Generic MVC Model in Java
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Good demonstration poor example |
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2004-07-19 08:42:01 |
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mbrowncpwr
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The major advantage of generics is the type safety provided by the collections classes. What you demonstrated for MVC can be done more generically and with less coupling using normal inheritance and interfaces.
In the publish-subscribe (or Observer pattern), the only thing the Observable object needs to know is that the Observer implements the
update(Observable)
method. It shouldn't care if the Observer is a WidgetObserver or a WicketObserver. You actually hamper extension by placing those restrictions because now instead of iterating through a list of Observables and registering as an Observer, my Observer has to know what kind of Observable he is registering with before hand. This will probably require reflection which totally defeats both goals of inheritance and generics.
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Good demonstration poor example
2004-07-19 09:01:16
mbrowncpwr
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The main benefit of generics is the ability to remove typecasting away from collection classes. Now my Hashtables can know they are a collection of Widgets ordered by Strings and I can get compile time debugging when I try to put a Wicket instead of a Widget into my collection.