Java: Best approach to have a long list of variables needed all the time without consuming memory?
- by evilReiko
I wrote an abstract class to contain all rules of the application because I need them almost everywhere in my application. So most of what it contains is static final variables, something like this:
public abstract class appRules
{
public static final boolean IS_DEV = true;
public static final String CLOCK_SHORT_TIME_FORMAT = "something";
public static final String CLOCK_SHORT_DATE_FORMAT = "something else";
public static final String CLOCK_FULL_FORMAT = "other thing";
public static final int USERNAME_MIN = 5;
public static final int USERNAME_MAX = 16;
// etc.
}
The class is big and contains LOTS of such variables.
My Question:
Isn't setting static variables means
these variables are floating in memory all the time?
Do you suggest insteading of
having an abstract class, I have a
instantiable class with non-static
variables (just public final), so I
instantiate the class and use the
variables only when I need them.
Or is what am I doing is completely
wrong approach and you suggest something else?
