state pattern question

[Rowan John]

Hi,
I have a process that lends itself nicely to the state pattern. However, in my case I have 2 very general concerns regarding its implementation:
a) The number of polymorphic methods I have in the base class is steadily growing, and I'd prefer to keep this interface nice and succinct. Is there any pattern someone could point me to regarding this?
b) I'm concerned that some of the state instances methods will become god-like. Once again is there a pattern I could look to regarding this?
thanks in advance,
Rowan

[Ilja Preuss]

I'd think we need to know a little bit more about your code before we can give sound advice.
For example, *why* does the number of polymorphic methods in the base class is steadily growing? Why would some of the state instances methods will become god-like?
Can you show us some of your code?

[Pradeep bhatt]

Is JDBC connection an example of State Pattern. The 2 states are Open and Closed. I dunno whether driver vendors implement it that way. What about Java sockets?
In the state pattern, the client will have pass State instances to the Context..This means that Client has to know all the state Classes ?
One more question who codes the transition from one state to another?