SAX2 RFD: Inheritance vs. Modification vs. Amalgamation

[John Cowan]

Don Park wrote:


> If the client supports SAX2 only, then they can invoke Parser directly.
> If the client supports both SAX and SAX2, then they can invoke the static
> helper methods in the helper class which handles things like
> NoSuchMethodException.
> 
> They should be passing an instance of the parser to the static helper
> methods.

By using a dynamic helper class, the rest of the application doesn't
need to know or care if this is a SAX2 or SAX1 parser.  See Miles's
and my messages on the subject.

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