Re: Class.forName().newInstance() vs new
On 06/12/2011 04:10 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
On 6/12/2011 5:05 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
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Thanks for hinting at this detail, Patricia! Performance of this piece
of code can vary dramatically with configured class / handler name. That
adds a level of complication which might make tracking issues harder
("It was so fast in our lab, now on production it's awfully slow.").
...
Is there really any program that instantiates so many database managers
that the difference between newInstance and constructor, and the
pipeline reloads related to conditional branches, become measurable?
Only OP knows. That's why I also suggested to go with Class.forName()
and only pick a different solution if there really was a performance issue.
I was concerned about the testing issues. Suppose some future changes
introduce a bug in the fall through path. In order to catch that bug,
there would have to be at least one test that instantiates a database
manager other than the ones that are being handled specifically.
Another bad effect from complexity in the implementation...
Cheers
robert
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