Hi Chris,

The following quick and simple test shows you're perfectly correct:

public class ClassTest {
static {
System.out.println(ClassTest.class.getName());
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
// do nothing
}
}

Thanks very much, cutting out one helper class won't speed up my app a lot but it will neaten the code and this is good to know for other reasons too!

Bart.