Web-tier design question

Hello,
The web tier framework I'm working utilizes Struts, and I have a question about using interfaces in base action classes. We have created static utility wrapper methods for accessing different scopes and services. Now in our base action class we have wrapper methods which wrap calls to the static utility methods. Now my colleague suggested that we create an interface that defines these wrapper methods to be used in the base classes and implement this interface in all our web-tier base classes i.e. BaseAction, BaseFilter, BaseTilesAction.
Is this overkill? I don't see the advantage because we're never instantiating these classes. However, we would be placing a rule that these classes must contain certain functionality.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Does it make sense to wrap calls to utility methods which are static?Depends - what does that accomplish? Fewer lines of code? Is there state involved in the calls (create object - set state - call method - get results)? If it accomplishes nothing concrete within the current requirements specification, refactor it later if you find a concrete reason to do so.
There may be reasons to do the non-easy thing. Such as you are going to sell the classes and customers will subclass them. But if that isn't about to happen soon, try hard not to gold plate and complexify the code.
How big is your application - how many servlets do you expect? How many concurrent developers (1, 2, 10, 100)?

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