APIFest08:Task1.5

From APIDesign

Thanks you all, dear twelve brave men for participating in APIFest08! I was really glad to see your submissions after the task 1. I really like the variety between individual solutions. And I am glad that some of you have introduced me to one new class from JDK! So far I have never heard about it, thanks.

However, I also have to apologize. I did try, to correctly specify the task 1 goals, however, looking at some of your solutions, I failed. Some of your solutions do not much the use cases that I had in my mind. That is bad, as it does not put you all at the same starting position for the real APIFest08 game. That is why I have to, like a starter seeing a problem before 100m run, call of the ready command, and ask you to prepare once more. That is why I am calling round: one and half. Please adjust your your solution according to additional tasks, described in Task1Test.java.

Please do it by Tue, Sep 30, 2008, noon. You do not need to retain any backward compatibility yet, however restrain yourself for doing too big changes to your APIs, they are all good, just satisfy the additional use cases, please.

Please accept my apology, and good luck!