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How to Model below Hiearchy with OOP
Note that I cannot use static inheritance due to language limitations (Java).
There is a general Building class. Each instance of Building has properties that exist regardless of instance variables (...
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Is usage of Nested classes an example of tight coupling ? (JavaFX)
So I'm working on this game where I have a nested class which has to get access to the member functions and variables of the outer class in order to perform it's functionalities. In particular the ...
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Java constructors confusion? [closed]
public class example
{
private String one;
private String two;
public example(String one, String two)
{
this.one = one;
this.two = two;
}
public static void ...
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Are we abusing static methods?
A couple of months ago I started working in a new project, and when going through the code it stroke me the amount of static methods used. Not only utility methods as collectionToCsvString(Collection&...
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If everything is supposed to be an object in Java (barring primative types), isn't this contradicting the point of static? [duplicate]
I often write code which makes an object and then use static methods in static classes to manipulate said object.
Am I missing the point of OOP? How do I know whether I'm thinking in the OOP mind ...
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Should class with only static data need to be instantiated?
I have two classes. 1. Node 2. MixedStateManager
Node class:
Node class maintains the state of nodes in the system. One such data is state.
public class Node
{
private int state;
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Creating a Java project without using any objects and just calling static methods on input?
I'm creating a program which takes a document, extracts it, and then moves this into a database. I've done most of this now and I've realised that I haven't made any instances of classes I've made (I ...
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Make methods that do not depend on instance fields, static?
Recently I started programming in Groovy for a integration testing framework, for a Java project. I use Intellij IDEA with Groovy plug-in and I am surprised to see as a warning for all the methods ...
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