Re: [MO-java-dev] InterfaceImplementor

[Scott L. <sl...@sl...>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:46:28AM +0100, Jeff Martin wrote:
> Thanks for this, but I'm not sure it's really the approach we want to be
> taking. I'd prefer to keep things a bit cleaner even if that means
> having lots of methods with just notImplemented(); in them. 

I have to disagree - I don't think that's the clean approach. I don't like the
idea of humans creating anything repetitive, anything that a computer could
create. There's more possibility for error that way. Or even copying/pasting
repetitive, automatically generated code. That code just serves to obscure
where the real work is being done.

> You might be interested in
> http://www.xpdeveloper.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?MockMaker which takes your
> approach a bit further. 
> 
> There is also some work being done on use java.lang.reflect.Proxy to
> provide a default mock implementation. But I'm not aware of the details
> of this yet.

Those are both interesting. I'll look more at them. 

Thanks.

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Scott Lamb