Sometimes I need to intitialize a complex static final object, but I don’t like static blocks for initialization. IMHO it isn’t nice to read!
An alternative way is using an static method:
private static final YourObject defaultYourObject = initYourObject(); private static YourObject initYourObject() { try { return new YourObject(param1, param2); } catch (Exception e) { // should never happened throw new Error("Could not initialize YourObject", e); } }
And of course, the error-handling is an own special topic in this case!