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> Why state the obvious? So you think using functions is enterprisey and over-engineering things?
Read my other reply to you on the subject! The API might be a small syntactic change, but the concepts and the implementation behind those for noobs are not. They learn OOP and constructors and then you tell them - they suck, use factories via static methods.
Yes, but that's a fault in Java the language. Keeping Java bad doesn't solve that problem.