tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237724005744642470.post8296866912455314163..comments2014-09-05T21:54:37.641+01:00Roger Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042290171112551665[email protected]Blogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237724005744642470.post-43700607101760108792012-05-04T18:28:21.472+01:002012-05-04T18:28:21.472+01:00I guess String is more an example of <i>Swiss Army Knife</i> anti-pattern than god object, as the definition of god object implies that it is a central controller that over-centralizes the functionality of the system, making other classes mostly data classes. Obviously String class is not a central controller.<br /><br />Then the question is whether such a Swiss Army Knife is bad? I guess not for most of developers, because we are not maintainers of JDK. In fact, it&#39;s kind of handy to have all methods related to String operation in one single class, so every time we want to use a method, we don&#39;t need to think: is this a conversion method? or search method? or equivalency method?望尽天涯http://www.blogger.com/profile/01472119419051033549[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237724005744642470.post-9064226458073430182012-02-27T09:50:22.455Z2012-02-27T09:50:22.455ZJava&#39;s JDK is full of crappy code. Have a look at java.util.Date if you are not convinced yet.<br />So, yeah, definitely a god object. But the funniest of all is that, even being a god object, it still lacks many useful methods... half a god, and not the best half.Loïc Lacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342295222932568841[email protected]