Blogs:JaroslavTulach:Practical Design

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Contents 1 Jaroslav Tulach's Practical Design 1.1 Cumulative Factory API Design Pattern 1.2 How Many People Have to Die leakages 1.3 Exceptions in API 1.4 Have You Ever Wondered? 1.5 Request/Response Pattern Revisited

Jaroslav Tulach's Practical Design

Cumulative Factory API Design Pattern

Dear API writers, let me introduce you to cumulative factory API Design Pattern. Read more...

--JaroslavTulach 15:38, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

How Many People Have to Die leakages

Recently I've been warned that my sidebar in Chapter 4, Ever Changing Targets talks about events that are completely ununderstandable for international readers. That made me write a short essay about leakages of cultural contexts and the similarities with the API Design.

--JaroslavTulach 05:01, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Exceptions in API

Casper Bang asked following question about exceptions in API after reading the TheAPIBook:

I was curious as to know how come, in a book strictly about API design in Java, you do not mention exceptions (particular checked exceptions) and the role they play in documenting assertions vs. hampering versionability. Did you simply think this to be too controversial an issue I wonder?

Good question! Inspiring. Here are my current answers: exceptions in API.

--JaroslavTulach 21:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Have You Ever Wondered?

Many people want to know, before they start to read a book, whether it can help them solve some problems they have faced. That is very likely reason why many books start with have you ever wondered sections. The Practical API Design book does not contain such section itself, however that in no way means that there it is not helping to solve problems! You can bet that there is a lot of useful advices! The book is a lab journal describing adventures of NetBeans project and as such, it is almost completely stuffed with problem solutions. Here is short online version of Have You Ever Wondered to demonstrate that. Visit the page and check yourself what problems can TheAPIBook solve for you!

--JaroslavTulach 20:42, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Request/Response Pattern Revisited

Here is few additional thoughts about Request/Response which did not make it into TheAPIBook's explanation of Request/Response pattern.

--JaroslavTulach 21:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)