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Thanks for the feedback Tod, Boris and Paul (while
this wasn't exactely the answer I was hoping for, it makes sense there must be a
cutoff point).
In general I find that the use of private
classes and methods, and lately plugin classloaders to limit class
visibility, sometimes makes it *very* difficult to reuse code, and the process
of getting the necessary extension points added is naturally very slow. The
reason why the extension points are not there in the first place is often
because there is not a huge request for them, while that of course
doesn't mean that nobody needs it.
I wish private classes and methods would be
marked with some kind of "override at your
own risk" meta-attribute/comment instead, as that would prevent the kind of
massive cloning of platform classes I'm sometimes forced to perform (and to
me this is a bigger maintanance problem than needing to port some code
after the occasional change to some 'internal' class I'm reusing)
John
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