Comments on: Message formatting in Java

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:11:00 +0000

Thanks Don The ordinal can be used in this case, but I prefer to explicitly define an integer to break the dependency on the ordering of the enum.
Static MessageFormat instances can be useful in places, but in my opinion looking up the instance to use as opposed to just using the static method just adds noise to the code.
In terms of performance, the static instance is way faster (it averages 2000ms less over 1 million iterations on my machine), so it’s definitely something to consider if the code is called often.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:10:42 +0000

Enums have an int associated with them already – .ordinal(). That’s why they can be used in switch-case statements. Any thoughts on usefulness of static MessageFormat instances as opposed to always using the static method MessageFormat.format?

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:54:25 +0000

Thanks Chris.

By: Chris Micallef

Chris Micallef — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:48:48 +0000

An interesting read indeed Karl.

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:55:47 +0000

Whoa, thanks Dreas Glad you liked it.

By: Andreas Grech

Andreas Grech — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:01:27 +0000

Immensely useful article. I like the part about the Template Engine