From 06ad5b4b6befe82913463dc62cbf85e207e3c428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:53:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] And now i'll add a comment about the public constructor.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/lang/trunk@137042 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/RandomStringUtils.java | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/RandomStringUtils.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/RandomStringUtils.java
index e94d0c9dc..5e59c9772 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/RandomStringUtils.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/RandomStringUtils.java
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
  * @author <a href="mailto:bayard@generationjava.com">Henri Yandell</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:steven@caswell.name">Steven Caswell</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:scolebourne@joda.org">Stephen Colebourne</a>
- * @version $Id: RandomStringUtils.java,v 1.3 2002/09/18 19:52:26 bayard Exp $
+ * @version $Id: RandomStringUtils.java,v 1.4 2002/09/18 19:53:52 bayard Exp $
  */
 public class RandomStringUtils {
 
@@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ public class RandomStringUtils {
     private static final Random RANDOM = new Random();
 
     /**
-     * Prevent construction of RandomStringUtils instances
+     * RandomStringUtils instances should NOT be constructed in standard programming.
+     * Instead, the class should be used as <code>RandomStringUtils.random(5);</code>.
+     * This constructor is public to permit tools that require a JavaBean instance
+     * to operate.
      */
     public RandomStringUtils() {
     }