Description David Corbin 2002-03-01 14:02:23 EST

Often, I end up with many utillity methods that only slightly related to the
main class.  I will frequently move these methods (if they're related) into a
named inner class (static).  Sometimes, after that, I will find that while those
methods should in fact be static in the main class, in this new Utility class,
they would be better server as instance methods, operating on a common field. 
In either one of these cases, I often move the Inner class to be an "outer
class".   I think all of these could be automated as:

1) "Move static Method to Inner Class" (create class if necessary)
2) "Convert class with all Static methods to Instance class" 
3) "Convert Inner Class to Outer Class"

It's possible that I'm entirely dreaming on #2.  I'll think about a bit more.