Hello All, I am a bit confused about the following requirement Part of your assignment will be to enhance the Data Class. You may do this by modification or subclassing, but you should document the approach and reason for your choices.
I think when I change the deprecated methods in the Data class I am enhancing the Data class. I am also planning to have a common interface DataAccess that has all the methods of the Data class. So in this case will I be subclassing the Data class? Also does the Data Class have to implement the DataAccess interface? Thanks -Amish
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I think modifying the deprecated code is maintenance as it preserves the signature and behaviour of the Data class. Adding the new functionality (lock, unlock, criteriaFind) is a different topic. Bern
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So regarding lock, unlock and criteriaFind I have two options. 1) Is change the Data class and add these methods to it. 2) Extend the Data class and add these methods to a subclass to the Data. Is this what you mean? -Amish
Originally posted by Bernhard Woditschka: I think modifying the deprecated code is maintenance as it preserves the signature and behaviour of the Data class. Adding the new functionality (lock, unlock, criteriaFind) is a different topic. Bern
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Please help!
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Not exactly. What I tryed to say is: Step 1) you just 'maintain' (i.e. modify the existing Data class) and replace depricated code, add/correct javadoc... Step 2) You decide wheather to add new functions by changing the class or subclassing it Step 3) You implement the new funcions in the Data class or a subclass. The important part is that Step 1 is maintenance of the ecisting class and Step 2 & 3 is extending the functionality. Hope this helps Bern [ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: Bernhard Woditschka ]
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