Pros and Cons of Static Methods

From: Axehelm (axehelm_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:18:18 GMT

Okay, I'm in a debate over whether or not static methods are a good idea in
a general domain class.

I'm personally not a fan of static methods but we seem to be using them to
load an object. For example if you have an Employee class rather then
instantiating an instance you call a static method 'GetEmployees' and it
returns a List of Employee objects.

I'm looking for what other people are doing and if you feel this is a good
or bad idea.

Thanks

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