Re: Design Question

From:

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:38:54 -0400

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<nospam-FEF146.11385417032010@news.aioe.org>

In article
<cba79ebc-a9f8-47df-9b18-bd72b0e84216@g19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Rhino <rchost@ymail.com> wrote:

    /**
     * This is a static factory method.
     *
     */
    public StringUtils getInstance() {
     return new StringUtils();
    }
[...]
Is this what you have in mind?

If yes, how do I invoke StringUtils.getInstance()? I've tried this
(from another class) in order to get an instance that uses the default
Locale:

        StringUtils stringUtils = StringUtils.getInstance();

but it generates a compile error because it doesn't like the static
reference to getInstance(). And this gives the exact same error:

        StringUtils stringUtils = new StringUtils.getInstance();

Can you (or anyone else reading this thread) kindly clarify what I've
got wrong and how to correct it?

    public static StringUtils getInstance() {
        return new StringUtils();
    }

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