This is for a very mature, stable app, not a quick 15 minute script.

<sarcasm>Heh, he he, ha HA! HAHAHAAHA!</sarcasm>

Seriously, what school of Software Engineering did you graduate from - do you really think that using a Factory Pattern is something that a script kiddie would come up with? It's a very common Design Pattern.

i do appreciate your desire to write your app 'The Right Way' - i really do, but sounds to me like you are too worried about 'false optimization' - imagine a interstate with a lovely 8 lane bridge that has been carefully constructed to maximize car flow ... only to be followed 2 miles down the road by a one lane bridge that you have no control over - that's false optimization.

You have a lot of good clues here on this thread on how to solve your problem - take these ideas and run with 'em! Sounds to me like a factory pattern, or as dragonchild called it, a 'polymorphic constructor' - is a pretty valid idea for this problem. If you don't like that - then you might want to rack your brain against an Abstract Factory.

But as for being concerned about loading subclasses that won't be used for a particular run of the app - do you _really_ need to concern yourself with that? And even if you do - doesn't that sound like a job for the _next_ version? (nudge, nudge) ;)

jeffa

In reply to (jeffa) 3Re: Loading a different Module depending on the Configuration by jeffa
in thread Loading a different Module depending on the Configuration by skazat

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