http://www.philvarner.com/blog/2009/02/01/java-map-interface-impl-for-composition/ mostly technical stuff Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:21:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.philvarner.com/blog/2009/02/01/java-map-interface-impl-for-composition/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Christian Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:16:52 +0000 http://www.philvarner.com/blog/?p=146#comment-1051 It is a common mistake that one should *always* favour composition over inheritance. Inheritance can be abused but in many cases inheritance is better than composition. It is a common mistake that one should *always* favour composition over inheritance. Inheritance can be abused but in many cases inheritance is better than composition.

]]> http://www.philvarner.com/blog/2009/02/01/java-map-interface-impl-for-composition/comment-page-1/#comment-1036 Merlyn Albery-Speyer Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:23:03 +0000 http://www.philvarner.com/blog/?p=146#comment-1036 Here's an idea. You want to avoid repeating the duplication of that code, right? Because it's Java, the way to do that is to ... use inheritance! That way you can create a CompositionHashMap to extend from. :D Here's an idea. You want to avoid repeating the duplication of that code, right? Because it's Java, the way to do that is to … use inheritance! That way you can create a CompositionHashMap to extend from. :D

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