Classes or Methods

[Rebel]

Using java, is it better coding practise to use classes or methods to carry out tasks?

Currently doing a project so want to get the most marks possible so would like to know the better way!

Thanks..

[ArchAngel]

This is a rather strange question. Classes are definition if methods and state, so it doesn't make much sense asking which one you should use since to use a method you need a class and for a class to do anything useful, it has to have a method!

However, what I suspect you might be talking about is something like this:

  public class MyLibraryMethods {
    public static void function1() {
      ...
    }
    public static void function2() {
      ...
    }
    public static void function3() {
      ...
    }
    ...
  }

...where a class is definied which does pretty much nothing but hold unrelated methods. There are a few cases where classes like this are need (such as java.lang.Math), but generally this is bad practice.

[Flawless]

I have yet to create a method without creating a Class. I know I will get it one of these days....