Re: Constructor chaining

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| Thanks for the reply. It's a very clever solution but I feel it may not be
| viable in my situation. I should've provided more information in the first
| place, sorry. What is happening is the constructor is doing 2 things:
| creating the details in the database and then initiating the object
itself.
| So originally I had only one constructor for the class:

Pardon me for saying so, but this really is not a good idea. You are tying
your business objects to a database that could change, thus forcing you to
have to change all your business classes whenever that kind of thing
happens.

Take a look at separating your business classes from their storage using
something known as an OPF (Object Persistence Framework). These creatures
use reflection to examine objects and store/retrieve/delete them from a
database without the objects knowing anything at all about databases. They
really are a better way to go.

Joanna

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Joanna Carter [TeamB]
Consultant Software Engineer


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