The latter, a seperate subclass for each breed. I'll try and explain why, and maybe it'll help make things a bit clearer (fingers crossed).

The Company and Company::Division classes are a kind of framework, which AcmeLtd and AcmeLtd::IT build upon to provide specific functionality, overriding methods to do so.

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you know, at this point lots of stuff has just clicked into place in my head, and i've realised that by changing some other stuff around, I can get rid of the requirement to start with the Company object, and just start directly with AcmeLtd (which will of course inherit generic processing functionality from Company).

I think the problems i've had in trying to figure out how to structure this have come about because i don't have the AcmeLtd class in the system right now, and all the information that is going to go into that is pulled out of config files. When i decided to add the class in, i didn't analyse the change fully, and have been trying to do things the hard way as a result.

Thanks enormously for the above reply; in trying to answer it's made me think more about the situation, and helped me understand things better myself.

hossman++ # would have voted the above reply up if i could have

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