: are linked to the one being written, think relationships here). I'm : having difficulty customizing the output because XMLWriter's : constructor is package protected. Is there a performance or API : reason we need this class to be uninstantiable from other packages? : Having it still final is ok, I believe, but making the constructor : public would help me write a custom query response writer. : : Objections?
No objections from me ... i *think* the reason it's pacakge protected at the moment is because the only expected use for it was to create a seperate instance during each invocation of the static method XMLWriter.writeResponse. (But only Yonik knows for sure what he anticipated). If it stays final, i don't see any downside to making the constructor public so other classes can reuse the write* methods ... it's making it subclassable that would worry me a little (there may be side affects in some of those methods that are neccessary but non-obvious) -Hoss
