[rufugee]

So would the appropriate approach in this case be to create IForum, ITopic and IPost interfaces and, instead of calling findAll() or count() directly on the class, call it on the interface so a class can be injected? Sorry...this is all a bit hazy to me. It's been years since I've had to deal with these sorts of concerns.

[latch]

Something like that..but then the question is: how do you get the instance in there? Normally through DI (ideally at the constructor level)...but the static method screws that up.

I agree that worrying about this is silly, but such is the life of someone who uses static languages.