[jdom-interest] Fast Factory

[Jason Hunter]

Alex Rosen wrote:
>>How many sub-classers are there out there?
> 
> Personally, we've mostly subclassed in order to work around bugs or
> limitations that have subsequently been fixed. I'm worried about making
> many things private, though, since we've consistently recommended
> subclassing over the years for adding your own small tweak. For example,
> tweaking the output formatting.

Yes, but I can't imagine going to 1.0 with odd duck protected fields or 
methods that then we have to keep around in future versions.

> and now that we have a separate Format class (again without getters)

Hmm, think we should add getters?

-jh-