Re: applicability of static methods in web applications?
vishist wrote:
Things are working at our end (though it might be absurd). The variables
declared in static method fall under thread scope right?. The DB
Connection, statement, resultset all fall in the same static method.
public static List getMyResultSet(){
Connection conn = getConnection();
PreparedStatement pStatement = conn.prepareStatement();
ResultSet rSet = pStatement.executeQuery();
List resultSetObjectList = new ArrayList();
...................
...................//Populating resultSetObjectList here
...................
return resultSetObjectList;
}
this is how our code is written and is working now. We invoke these
methods statically from the servlet prefixing the Class name. I know
that this is not a good style. Infact that was my question:
----isn't there any steadfast rule that says you shouldn't create static
methods that has business logic in them?.
There are no problems with that code.
The code you posted was:
public static List getId(){
return list;
}
which looked as if list was a static field.
Arne
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